Make use of time, let not advantage slip
Nicole Yunger Halpern
During the spring of 2022, I felt as though I kept dashing backward and forward in time.
At the beginning of the season, hay fever plagued me in Maryland. Then, I left to present talks in southern California. There—closer to the equator—rose season had peaked, and wisteria petals covered the ground near Caltech’s physics building. From California, I flew to Canada to present a colloquium. Time rewound as I traveled northward; allergies struck again. After I returned to Maryland, the spring...