Why did you become a physicist? Do you enjoy mac and cheese? How does particle physics contribute to future advances in the United States and the world as a whole? Are you an outdoorsman? Ever want to ask a physicist one of those questions? One of the projects I'm working on for the American Physical Society is called Adopt-a-Physicist and I thought I'd tell you a little about it today because it's just that cool! Don't worry, I'm not soliciting anything - it's a totally free project that is already underway. This program is designed to show high school students what it's like to be a REAL physicist - by giving them a chance to interact with physicists one-on-one via online discussion forums. Participating physicists include researchers at all kinds of labs and companies, computer programmers, doctors, science writers, and many others. Classes that participate in this program "adopt" up to three physicists (a physicist is defined as anyo
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