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- Toledo working outfit 😉 -

Happy Monday everyone! 

As you know, I came back home from my very sweet colleague Lucia’s wedding in Toledo, Spain, on Saturday.

Toledo is a town about one hour from Madrid (where Lucia is from), and according to my friend Google.com it is "one of the Spanish cities with the greatest wealth of monuments. Known as the 'city of three cultures', because Christians, Arabs and Jews lived together there for centuries, behind its walls Toledo preserves an artistic and cultural legacy in the form of churches, palaces, fortresses, mosques and synagogues. This great diversity of artistic styles makes the old quarter of the city a real open-air museum, which has led to it being declared a World Heritage Site."
Unfortunately I didn’t experience anything of Toledo this time, I just watched it at a distance 😛 But I know, after what Lucia has told me, and after driving through it on our way back to Madrid on Saturday, that this is a place I have to come back to. Maybe like September, or something? We’ll see what the Man has to say (cause next time I’m not going on my own, like I ”had to” this time, since he’s in Asia – yes, I still miss him 🙂 ).

Anyway; I loved every single part of those 24 hours I spent in the Hotel Cigarrel El Bosque, where I stayed, and the party was! From sitting outside my room at my balcony, in the shadow, looking at the old town of Toledo, drinking ice cold water and writing, to sneaking out to the pool with Cecilie at 2 AM, and sitting there with our tired feet in the water and discussing nuclear physics <3

As I’ve promised; here are some pictures from Lucia and David’s wedding in Toledo – including my choice of outfit, of course 😀

- my room had a view towards the old town of Toledo -

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I couldn't decide whether to wear my red/pink roses dress, or an apricot thing, but when it turned out that my underwear showed through the apricot dress,  the decision was quite easy 😉

- someone sent a bottle of sparkling wine to the room, and I have no idea who did it -

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Today I'm back at the office again, writing. It's pretty quiet here at Blindern now - not sure if I prefer it like this, or with a lot of other people...
PS: I still miss Anders - just 22 more days to go, now...

As I've already told you, Anders has left for Asia, and is staying there for a whole month (if they work hard on their blog, maybe they'll even manage to rotate the pictures 90 degrees...:P).

I really want him to have fun, but I still think it's almost horrible not to see him for so long :/ So far, I feel very silly since I start to cry (or almost cry) everytime I hear anything from him...:P Like when he sent me all of these pictures yesterday - maybe I should take this as a sign that he is thinking of me (and missing me?) too? 😉
Anyway, this is really #nofilter 😀 
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Right now I'm enjoying a glass of Chardonnay and a "Serrano and Mozarella platter" at Brussels airport - I'm staying here for four more hours, so chances are quite big that there will be another glass of wine. It was, as you understand, a very short visit to Spain (unfortunately), but I think I really want to go back to Toledo (one hour from Madrid). The wedding last night was fantastic, and as promised I'll make an outfit post and also show pictures from last nigh later - probably tomorrow <3

I really hate being away from my blog for as much as I've been have lately :/ The thing is that sometimes plans change, and time for stuff like blogging goes towards zero - which has been the case the last weeks (especially the last 10 days or so).
Last week, for example, we spent two days at Brønnøya, with Charlotte, Anders (Charlotte's husband, not my boyfriend), and their daughter Kristiane. That may seem like an odd choice when I'm "complaining" about there being so much stuff to do (with Berkeley coming up in August), but those 48 relaxing hours were more or less my entire summer vacation with both Alexandra and Anders (my boyfriend, not Charlotte's husband 😉 ) so when Charlottes asked if we wanted to go, it really was an easy choice after all <3
Then there's been two non-planned days at home with Alexandra (which I of course love, but then there is less time for working, and then no time for blogging), and yesterday she went off to her father for summer vacation the next 2.5 weeks... Yesterday was also the day when Anders went to Asia for the next month - I should be honest and say that I did shed some tears.
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Now I'm off for something that is planned: my fantastic colleague Lucia's wedding in Spain <3
Right now I'm waiting to board my flight for Frankfurt, and then I'm going from there to Madrid. I'll spend the night at an airport hotel in Madrid, and then, tomorrow I'll go from Madrid to Toledo, where we'll celebrate Lucia and David.
I'll keep you posted with wedding outfit and other stuff (at least I'll try my best 😛 ), but now I have to run to get me an extra dose of cosmic radiation *yeay*.

Yesterday we had a bunch of high school students visiting the University - that is, the ones that have applied to become a student at the faculty of mathematics and science this fall. They got the opportunity to "test"  life as a student, and one of the things we did (of course) was to make liquid nitrogen ice cream. Ice cream made with just eggs, cream, sugar and liquid nitrogen is the best EVER, and of course I want to share the joy with my readers <3 <3 <3

You need:
- liquid nitrogen (5 litres)

- gloves and goggles (recommended - liquid nitrogen is REALLY cold, and you don't want it in your eyes)
- heavy cream (3 cups)
- eggs (3)
- sugar (1 cup)
- if you want to, you can add flavour - like espresso, chocolate, strawberries, vanilla, cocoa, or whatever you want!
You can make the ice cream in two ways: 
Either mix the cream and eggs and sugar, then add the nitrogen (little by little), as you mix with a wooden spoon - this is sort of the "rough and rustic" way...
Or use a "stand mixer" (e.g., a KitchenAid mixer), with a "flat beater" blade. Pour some mix into the bowl, run the machine at low to medium speed, and slowly pour in the nitrogen. If you hear crunching sounds, slow down on the nitrogen. After a few minutes the mix should become quite thick; you may have to scrape a frozen crust off the sides of the bowl (use a wooden spoon). Keep at it until you like the consistency, which will basically be "soft ice cream." Remove the bowl, and serve with a wooden spoon 🙂
I'm soooo making this for Alexandra's next birthday...!
/ me and Ilan"testing" life at the University - from my Snapchat story yesterday --> follow me @ sunnivarose  🙂 /

So, we served ice cream from scratch; but not as from scratch as Carl Sagan's apple pie: "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." BEAUTIFUL!

Hjelp! Nesten helg igjen, allerede?!?
Mange syns at mai er en topp måned pga alle fridager og inneklemte dager og langhelger, men jeg må vel nesten innrømme at jeg har mine tvil...:/ Altså, det er jo veldig deilig med en lang helg på hytta, eller bare mange, late dager i parken - problemet er når det er så mye som skal gjøres, som nå. Jeg skulle gjerne ha hatt langhelgene (fordi 3 dager helg er awesome), men med 5 skikkelige arbeidsdager i mellom dem (fordi 3 eller 4 dager uker rett og slett er for lite) - så, ja, til en lengre mai måned, må vel nesten være konklusjonen <3
takk til Teknisk Avdeling som gjør det nydelig på Campus - feks foran Georg Sverdrups hus/Universitetsbiblioteket <3

Vel vel, nok om det, og over til tittelen på dette innlegget: På førstkommende mandag (samme dag som jeg holder frokostforedrag hos Realistforeningen) - altså den 1. juni - er alle de som har søkt på et program på MatNat-fakultetet (feks Fysikk/FAM) på UiO som 1.-valg invitert til å komme på besøk til fakultetet, for en forsmak på Blindernlivet. Hele opplegget går over tre timer (fra 12-15), og avsluttes med felles grilling, der det også kommer til å komme en del professorer og andre ansatte (jeg kommer :D) fra hvert institutt (MatNat består tross alt av mer enn bare fysikk :P). Planen med dette er at søkerne kan få et lite inntrykk av hvordan livet som student er, og kanskje aller mest at man kan lære hvor kort avstanden mellom studenter og ansatte faktisk er...
HER kan du lese mer, og melde deg på 😀
Håper mange vil komme på dette, da (og frokosten på morgenen) - jeg gleder meg!

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This week will be crazy - at least the three first days... Tomorrow and Tuesday will be the last two days with meetings with the Ludvigsen committee - after Tuesday, everything is supposed to be more or less ready for the Minister *feeling pressure*. Then, on Wednesday I will give a talk at the Women in Tech conference in Oslo (program HERE). The talk is not (a 100%) finished yet, and naturally I'm feeling pressure here too. My talk is called "Hva har kjernefysikk og rosablogging til felles?" (what are the similarities of nuclear physics and girly blogging), but I think I will have the subtitle from my talk at Le Rossey in November; "why science should be more pink" - I'm really excited and a little bit scared, but I think (hopefully) it will be ok 😉
Thursday and Friday have to be 100% dedicated to SCIENCE; I'm so close to knowing what the gamma energies of my ALFNA matrix are now. You know that feeling when you've been working on a big puzzle, and suddenly you only have 30 pieces left? That's about how I'm feeling right know, and in a way I wish I could be at the office, working on those last 30 pieces tomorrow... However, that's life, and I think Thursday and Friday will be some very productive days <3
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We have spent a fantastic day at Sognsvann today - with Anders, Joakim, Lise, Alexandra, and me; here are some snaps from a great day! (Yes, you're right; this is how I look without any makeup on...I feel naked 😛 )

This is so the story of my life these days...and on top of everything, the apartment is a mess - since we're trying to make it fit two adults instead of one. Not that I'm complaining about that - I love it - but it takes time 😛

Anyway; guess that Hofstadter's Law applies to a lot of areas in life? For me right now it's mostly science and living situation stuff 😉

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Dear dear readers!
I´m so sorry about my "not being as active as I really want to"-behaviour here at det blog these days, but I´m trying to be a good PhD student and a good mother and prepare talks and fix the apartment and everything...and of course there's something about my internet connection at home these days - meaning, there is no internet for me there (Anders' Mac is fine, but suddenly it's not possible for me to connect) :/

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Anyway; hope you understand, and please follow me on Instagram and Snapchat - I've just started to "figure out" Snapchat (haha), and I'm sharing pictures from everyday life at the University (and then some - Alexandra, for example 🙂 ).

I'm @sunnivarose on Insta and Snap, of course 😉

Jeg tok meg rett og slett fri i mange dager, jeg! Fri fra forskning, fri fra blogg, fri fra mail - fri fra omtrent alt; og koste meg med familie og gode mennesker <3 DEILIG (og ganske sunt, tror jeg...).
Nå er derimot ferien helt over, og hverdagen er tilbake - noe som også er veldig deilig 🙂 For meg startet det friskt med et laaangt foredrag (egentlig to og et halvt) for en god gjeng realfagslærere på Romerike i dag; bla mine to "gamle" lærere i matte og fysikk i 3. klasse på VGS, og det var veldig stas. 
I morgen er det innspilling av den siste episoden av Big Bang (allerede - det skulle bare være fem episoder i denne omgang:/ ), så det betyr at torsdag og fredag blir det fullt fokus på forskning - jeg skal blant annet lage en detaljert fremdriftsplan, med milepæler og det hele *like*.

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Så til tittelen på dagens innlegg: om kort tid er det søknadsfrist (15. april) til høyere utdanning (feks til UiO *hint* 😉 ), og i den sammenhengen syns jeg en repost av innlegget jeg skrev til Estine i januar er på sin plass. Hvis noen lurer på om de er flinke nok - enten det er til å velge realfag på VGS, eller det er å begynne på fysikk (feks) på universitetet. Er du motivert til å lære, og jobber HARDT, tror jeg man kan få til hva man vil...husk at de færreste får ting grati:


Kjære Estine! (mattekarakterer og sånn)



På mandag fikk jeg en kommentar her på bloggen; som jeg fikk lyst til å svare som et innlegg, og ikke bare i kommentarfeltet – for jeg tror det kan være interessant for flere enn bare den som kommenterte:



Kjære estine, så gøy at du har lyst til å studere fysikk!
Nå har ikke jeg 100% oversikt over de forskjellige typene matte på VGS i dag (i hine hårde dager, dvs før Kunnskapsløftet, het det MX og MY, og jeg hadde selv den mest ”teoretiske matten” som var MX), men du har jo toppkarakterer (ja, 5 er også en toppkarakter 😉 ), så dårlig er du i alle fall IKKE!
Siden du sier du ikke er utpreget kjempegod (men allikevel har de karakteren du oppgir) så gjetter jeg på to ting:

  1. du er jente
  2.  du har måttet jobbe for å oppnå de karakteren du har fått – det har ikke kommet av seg selv


Jenter har ofte lavere selvtillit når det kommer til slike spørsmål, og tror oftere enn gutter at de må prestere bedre i for eksempel matte før de tror at de kan få til noe (for eksempel studere fysikk). Og, ja, jeg har forskning til å støtte oppunder dette utsagnet dersom noen syns dette var en voldsom generalisering å komme med. Uansett; dette har ikke noe å si for videre svar, og om du er gutt så gjelder jo resten av innlegget mitt uansett 😉
Hvis det er sånn at du har lagt ned en god del innsats for å oppnå de resultatene du har, tenker du kanskje at du ikke er så god, for hadde du vært ”god” så hadde det kommet av seg selv(?). Vel, det er bullshit. Det viktige her er at du klarer å få det til! For noen koster det mye, for andre koster det mindre (urettferdig, kanskje, ja, men sånn er livet, og det dealer vi med) – men faktisk tror jeg at det kan være en fordel når man først kommer opp på universitetet å ha opplevd at man faktisk må jobbe litt for å få til ting, for ellers kan man kanskje lettere få seg en ubehagelig overraskelse (de fleste må jobbe for å få gode karakterer på universitetet – noen ganger kreves det HARD jobbing for i det hele tatt å stå, men, åh, så godt en ”seier” smaker etter skikkelig innsats!)
Man sier ofte at det kreves 10% talent og 90% innsats for å få til noe – dette tror jeg gjelder for fysikkstudier óg.
Så til det egentlige spørsmålet: hva slags karakterer hadde jeg?
Jeg hadde full fordypning (2. og 3. klasse) i både matte og fysikk. I matte troooor jeg (jeg begynner åpenbart å bli senil siden jeg ikke husker eksakt) at jeg lå og vippet mellom 5 og 6 begge årene, men at jeg (med en god innsats) klarte å vippe meg opp begge år. I fysikk husker jeg bedre hvordan det gikk: der husker jeg meget klart at jeg fikk 4 i 2. Klasse, for på slutten av vårsemesteret hadde jeg en lengre prat med fysikklæreren min der jeg spurte om han trodde jeg kunne fortsette med fysikk i 3. Klasse, siden jeg tross alt ikke var ”utpreget kjempegod i faget” (jeg følte meg vel strengt tatt fryktelig dårlig, og fysikk var definitivt det faget jeg strevde mest med). Læreren ga meg klarsignal, men sa også selvsagt at jeg måtte jobbe. I 3. Klasse lå jeg og vippet mellom 4 og 5, men klarte å jobbe meg opp til 5 som avsluttende karakter fra VGS (tror det må ha vært astrofysikkapittelet som ”reddet” meg), og jeg husker jeg også fikk 5 på avsluttende, skriftlig eksamen (og den jobbet jeg for).
Håper dette var litt oppklarende 😉
Lykke til videre – forhåpentligvis med fysikkstudier! (Kanskje sees vi på Blindern om noen år…)
Klem fra Sunniva <3




Friday evening everyone - and for a lot of you; start of the easter holiday 🙂 
Not for me, though; I will probably work Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday (after that A will be with me, and we will focus on easter, and family and chocolate and spring) - I really need it, ´cause everything takes more time than I´m planning on :/ Like today: I had a plan, and I´ve tried quite hard to follow it, but I never got to the "calibrating the sodium iodide detectors" part of it... I did attend a meeting I had forgot about, though, and I made this event for those wanting to do a Master´s degree in nuclear physics in our group. I also spent some time on my thesis, on the Nuclear data needs for future reactors and fuels chapter. One word at a time, my thesis is growing.
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Anyway: T. G. I. F. !
Wine, knowing that I wont wake up by the alarm tomorrow (but Alexandra - which is so much better), Anders at the other side of the table (programming, I think), soon chicken salad, Big Bang manuscript, and maybe one more glass of wine... Bon week-end tout le monde <3