This Is Both Amazing And Profoundly Irritating - The Exact Writing Equivalent Of That Thing Artists Do

“the millenium falcon would wipe out the enterprise in seconds” lmao the enterprise is just an innocent science class floating thru space…. all they wanna do is look at some rocks… kiss an alien…. find some space plants….. why would you fight that its not a battleship theyre just nerds…… leave them olone 

As a student of color in STEM, that scene perfectly describes what I think about everyday. Here’s a quick list of everything that I am doing:

I have a 3.71 GPA

I volunteer 10+ hours every week

I am a part-time researcher on campus (at some point I’ll make a post about my research)

I am helping to develop a CubeSat as a part of an team of undergraduate students

and I am developing my own educational outreach student organization to bring more students of color into STEM

and you know what?

I probably still won’t get as far as rich, white students who haven’t worked nearly as hard as I have. I grew up just above the poverty line, so I don’t have the connections that those students have, it sets me apart, and it sets me behind.

The students who have those connections were able to get internships and research positions in high school, without even trying. Meanwhile, I got my first research position half of the way through my second year of college because I worked my ass off during my first year and the first half of this school year. My story is in no way unique. This is the experience of thousands of students of color around the country. We have to work so hard to get half as far as our white counterparts, and it’s just bullshit.

Just a Friendly Reminder

The acronym for one of the instruments on-board the Juno spacecraft is JEDI (Jupiter Energetic-particle Detector Instrument). Whoever spent the time to come up with that acronym is my hero.

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”

— E.E. Cummings

Important thread.

Experts says a 'space base' halfway between the Moon and Earth could be built in 10 years

We can't wait.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced an ambitious plan to build a space base between Earth and the Moon, which astronauts could use as a kind of halfway house on lunar missions – or as a launchpad for new explorations elsewhere in the Solar System.

While details on the proposal aren’t yet available, the ESA says this ‘human outpost’ in space could be built within the decade – and the organisation will be actively considering the plan at a conference later in the year.

In addition to providing a “crossroads in space” to help with lunar research missions and other space-faring expeditions, this base – situated approximately halfway between Earth and the Moon – could also serve as a successor to the International Space Station (ISS).

The ISS is scheduled to come out of service in 2024, after some 26 years of active duty, and it’s not yet clear how space agencies around the world plan to fill the void left by this massively important space research facility.

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After 4 rigorous years of study, I received my Bachelors of Science in Aeronautics from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University! The sky is not the limit, I’m just getting started. Come fly with me 👨🏾‍🎓👨🏾‍✈️✈️

You go home and invent a story about me, and now you can’t separate me from the person you’ve imagined me to be. You call that, I suppose, being in love; as a matter of fact it’s being in delusion.

Virginia Woolf, Night and Day

Fourth in a series I of comics about protesting safety tips I made with @this.is.ysabel . This one is about the dangers of police surveillance and how to avoid it if possible. Keep being safe when you go out. Don’t get snatched!