Physics Enrichment Camp.

In the past 2 days, I have been attending this Physics Enrichment Camp held in the National University of Singapore (NUS).

It isn't exactly logical to be waking up at 5 in the morning, way before the sun even bothers to rise into the seemingly dark and gloomy skies. However, I felt that every ounce of effort I had put into waking myself up, be it half or fully conscious, has paid off very tremendously. Why? Because it has exposed me thoroughly to the possibilities of more complex physics and how the different branches of physics may become unique, cool yet interesting pieces of art through the different lab experiments that can be done when we get into tertiary institutions.

Perhaps many of you people may think that physics is boring, physics is not my interest, physics is my weakness. Yes, I can understand that. I was part of that bandwagon before I got into the camp. However, this camp got me interested in physics and I made me want to excel in physics. I think that telling yourself that you have a weak spot in physics is very wrong as it limits your capabilities and potential in excelling. This goes to all other subjects as well.

This camp is not exactly a camp, because we did not get the opportunity to stay in the school campus at all. Instead It is something like a remedial class where we report early in the morning and be dismissed when the sun is starting to set. In the camp, I had my first taste of lectures in a lecture theater. The atmosphere was rather different, and there you see, one person, having a microphone clutched in his hands or in other cases clipped by his collar, blabbering about concepts of physics that are too hard and too complex for us to accept. Such as Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and how to create very minute drawings by shifting atoms, one at a time.

Although we didn't have a clue about what the lecturer was writing, most of us had jotted notes down, which in later part proved to be much of a failure, because we couldn't understand what we ourselves have jotted down. It wasn't about illegibility, It was about complexity of the things we were trying to absorb. One of the lectures has gotten me thoroughly interested in nano-sciences. Because the way the lecturer presents and tries to explain and demonstrate to us is just too brilliant. I cannot think of another word to tell how successful his lecture was. He managed to capture everyones attention, he managed to get the crowd laughing at his witty jokes and manages to etch in my heart the wonderful memories I had spent in the hall.

Wait a minute. Did i put 'wonderful' and 'hall' together? YES!

That is how much I have enjoyed that particular lecture by associate professor Sow Chorng Haur.

This camp has pretty much harnessed enough interest for me to look more into physics, about the few founding fathers of modern physics such as Sir Isaac Newton and of course the ever famous Albert Einstein.

I believe words may be ineffective to persuade one's mind to entirely enjoy and like something. But this is based solely on my own perspective. You can choose to take this entire entry as my honest opinion, or you can just take it as a load of sarcastic jargon. Perhaps one day when you actually find the interesting part of physics, or you think that physics are one of which you score better in, then truly will you know whatever I have wrote in this entry.

Always remember :
"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character." - Albert Einstein.