The shortfall of a failing memory

Okay, so I should have heeded Dr. Ford's insistence that I keep an updated blog of my adventures at PIO. At least I can remember pretty far back that it is scary to even think that.

To recall, I went to interview Ms. Guo for the Langmuir award. Thankfully that was quite an easy task to accomplish. She seemed to be very shy for an interview. I really didn't mean for it to be that way. But I guess that if you never have had to be interviewed for a news story, it can be quite intimidating.

I can wonder how much stress this is for people to just sit down and give out information to a writer. Rest assured, I love talking to people, it took a while to get her to warm up and give me good answers. Unfortunately, Dr. Zhang answered most of my questions and it was kinda decent in the article. Dr. Zhang seems to be more experienced at answering them than her Ph.D student. Hehe.

I got a bit confused on a few things in this interview, but I managed to get a good story out of it. Later that day, I got an email from Ms. Guo about how she felt nervous and she apologized for being that way. She answered the remainder of my questions that she was confused about. I replied back to see if I can get a photograph of her and the award so it can be posted on the Tech website. (I went back the next day in the afternoon to get the photo.)

My next interview was with Dr. Heizler. Let me say that this is going to be one of my most difficult stories that I will cover. I spent nearly an hour and a half talking with him about plenty of things. I still don't know what I'm going to do with this project. I have about five pages of notes from interviewing him, but it seems to be so scattered around different projects and I'm trying to find something to tie them all together and it is not working. I asked Thom for advice and he suggested to start typing and then go from there. Ask questions, figure out some other things, and proceed further.

Getting to know my office has been interesting so far.