25/2/2019 First Day at AUT

I'm on this path in life and I want to be an Astronomer because I think its the coolest Job in the Universe.

Today was my first day at Auckland University of Technology under their 2 year 240 pts Masters in Research Program Astronomy Course.

The Course will put me under the Institute for Radio Astronomy and Space Research (IRASR) which is a pretty small team the Office of Which id located in the International Students Center office next to the AUT Law Building.

Front Door of the Institute

Today I met with some Key members of the Institute, Including.

• Professor Gulyaev: He's the Boss. The Big Boss. Like Korolev, and Stalin. combined.
• Dr.  Willem Van Straten. He's doing Research on Pulsars and Pulsar Timing Arrays. Does work on Fast Radio Bursts Too. which is one of the key mysteries in Astronomy today.
• Mr. Tim Natusch
• Mdm Patricia Sallis: Institute Administrator 
• Natalia (Nat) from Ukraine. An Associate Researcher

Can't lie i felt kind of intimidated with the the meetup. I've waited a long time to get a chance at being an Astronomer and these are real Astronomers, cut of the same creed and cult as legendary people such as Carl Sagan, George Gamow and Edwin Hubble.

I am to be one among them. Stay tuned to see how it goes.

I've been given Homework to study these papers:

• SPINN: Straightforward Machine Learning Solution towards Pulsar Candidate Selection Problem

• Towards Deeper Neural Networks Towards Fast Radio Burst Detection (FRB)
  
  Fast Radio Bursts are Sudden Signals that Appear to originate from Extragalactic Sources. Investigating FRBs may enable us to unlock the mysteries of the Interstellar Medium (The Space Between Stars) and the IGM (The Space Between Galaxies)

A flash in the pan, a whisper in the Cosmic scan, then Nothing.