Hopp til innhold

I didn´t manage to ”tick off” all of my to do´s yesterday, so I´ve started this day with the rest of my list. The worst is that I didn´t spend as much time as I had planned to, working on my thesis (outline) – I admit it; I think it´s hard… (it is, very slowly growing, though)



So, even though I was at my office ten minutes past nine, and spent 11 hours at the university, it still wasn´t enough (either I´m not good enough at planning, or I´m not good enough at focusing – or maybe it´s a mixture of both?). Anyway, at seven, I couldn´t work any longer, so I left the office and went bowling with Anders instead.
So much fun!
The last time I did it was like more than ten years ago, but bowling and drinking  a couple of beers was a very good idea, and something I will do again in not so long (at least before ten years again :P)

Anders is obviously better than I am (or, at least he´s better than "Sunniv") 😉

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Now I´m ready to get the rest of my list ticked off, and then spend the  rest of the day at the office (that ends at four today, since Alexandra week starts today) with  my theeeeeeesis.

Focus <3

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Long day.

Much work.

Attended seminar about Island of stability, worked on thesis outline (I get a little bit dizzy by this - so - much - work), meeting, answering e-mails, another meeting, thinking, writing...
Tried do fix trip to Paris for an exciting experiment, but there are challenges with the dates and Alexandra and everything - hope to make it, though!

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I really feel like I did nothing today, and I HATE that feeling... It´s not exactly true, since I´ve been running around all day - but most of the "running" has been related to stuff that I can´t tell you about yet; not before the end of March, actually (and I´m so excited and I´m dying to tell you right now - but I´ve promised not to, so I/you have to wait a little longer :/). I did do my two "science goals" from yesterdays "science plan", though, so I guess I should be happy 😉

Anyway, here are som snaps from this busy Tuesday - feel free to follow me on Instagram; @sunnivarose, of course 😉

By the way: I´m blogger of the month in Stella Magazine <3
Hugs&Kisses

I´m excited about the view from my apartment this morning:

I´m excited about the beautiful pink roses I got for my birthday party from Anders and Charlotte <3

I´m excited about Alexandra turning five (!) this Sunday, and about the brownies I´ve made tonight for the celebration: 

I´m excited about molten salt reactors.

About the fact that I´ll start tomorrow by attending a talk I believe will be really interesting, about the history of nuclear physics: "100 years of studying Nuclear Physics"

Last, but definitely NOT least I´m extremely excited about "Sushi and Nuclear" being nominated for American Documentary Film Festival 2015 - it´s actually almost difficult to believe...! Can´t wait till I can show you what we made in Japan 😀

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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 J 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




It seems to me like Mondays are always so busy, and the TO DO list is just a never ending story... Is that just me, or do others feel the same way?
Tomorrow I´m going to Hamar to give a talk about science and physics and "my story" and stuff like that - really looking forward to it, but my talk is not entirely ready yet :/ However, I´m getting up early tomorrow, to get Alexandra to kindergarden when it opens, to get to Hamar before 10:30 AM, so now I have to go to sleep! Sleep is so extremely important (like, really!), and since I have time on the train tomorrow I can finish everything there 🙂
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Love this cover of Taylor Swits "Shake it off", btw...
...and Einsteins letter to Marie Curie - basically telling her that haters gonna hate, a 100 years ago. 
SHAKE IT OFF <3

What a day - or, really it´s more like a "no day"; first of all it´s really cold in Oslo today, and I hate to freeze, and even though I try my best not to freeze I still end up doing it anyway (apparently I haven´t learned to dress properly for the Norwegian climate - after just 31 years of practicing :P)... Second, I haven´t done anything today - which of course is not entirely true, but my day has consisted of getting up and getting Alexandra to kindergaden, a doctor´s appointment for me, a dentist´s appointment for Alexandra - and suddenly it was 1 PM before I was at my office - even though I got up at 6 AM, and, well, now I´m gonna spend the next 45 minutes answering e-mails, and then I have to leave to get Alexandra in kindergarden (#mommylife).
The only good thing about the cold weather is that I can wear my favourite, pink hat with bling - I love it so much that I even wear it inside. My big coffee mug, which is a memory from my semester as a master student in Paris (a real Monoprix coffee mug 😛 ) is also good to hold on to. 
Since this is a pink, girly blog, it´s totally ok (close to recommended) to share 4 almost identical pictures of myself, wearing my pink, blingy hat, in my office. You can also see my two office mates; Lucia <3 and Aylin <3

Happy, busy, Monday, everyone!
I my week continues like this I will have done A LOT by the end of it...but it won´t, since I´m with Alexandra from Wednesday afternoon - a good thing about having children is that you have to live a "normal life" (from time to time) 😉 Anyway, I´m still at the office, with my fantastic colleagues Gry and Therese (who is writing for her life, a.k.a. finishing her PhD thesis), and this is how my week started:
6 AM - coffee and e-mail in bed
8:30 AM - café and working on a text (I sooo want to tell you about it now, but I can´t yet :/)
9:30 AM - office
10 AM - article club; "Do we really teach physics"
11:30 AM - meeting
1 PM - more text work (have read about hormones, Heisenberg, Newton, Darwin, monkeys, pseudo science, skin conductance, radiotrophic fungus,  and more...;) )
...and I´m still at that "text work" thing...
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my little sister, Carina, turned 25 on Saturday, and the weekend was filled with wine and food and coffee and happy happy love <3<3<3

Maybe airport blogging will be my thing in 2015 too - like it was in 2014 (at least the last part of that year) 🙂
I´m currently at the Seafood Bar at Gardermoen, drinking a latte and waiting for my flight to Helsinki. It´s actually a little chaotic here today (quite a lot of snow outside...), but they don´t say anything about any delays, so I have my fingers crossed.
The goal of the trip this time is to learn about the Finnish educational system (since I´m in Ludvigsenutvalget) - I think it will be very interesting, and I hope I´ll go back to Oslo again tomorrow with new inspiration 😀
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I have to share a "Pon & Zi" - they are so cute <3

It´s time for another recap of 2014, and then I´m definitely "done" with last year. The first recap was about my biggest moments of 2014, but as a girly blogger it´s essential to show a lot of selfies and outfits, so today I want to share my 12 favourite outfits/selfies of last year <3<3<3
I have also gone through a lot of the outreach/science communication work I did last year (the Institute want to know, of course 🙂 ), and I must say I am actually a little proud of what I managed... I gave at least 30 talks, and if I count how many people I reached last year it´s at least 15000 (the two TEDx talks helps quite a lot, of course). If I also think that I "reach" 30 pupils through every teacher I talk to, the number doubles (I gave several talks to teachers around Norway last year). Also, the blog had an average of 15000 hits per month - which I think is quite ok for a pink blog about nuclear physics and research and stuff 😉
This year I hope to do even better - I want to reach more people (through the blog, and through talks), I want to give better talks, and I want to inspire more people to go into science <3 

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