Before I knew it, my summer came to a screeching halt when Rudy, president of The Science Source, brought Elizabeth and me into the conference room and started asking us about our final thoughts on our summer. It came so much faster than I could have ever imagined. Some people tell me that that's a sign of getting old, when things whizz by you so quickly that you barely have time to notice just how quickly it has traveled. But, I'm not nearly as upset as I thought I would be when the job ended. It's simply time for me to move on, finish my degree, and keep going with what I've been doing for four years now. This is how I got the name Wandering Eigenvectors. An eigenvector, or also known as an eigenstate, is an important physical quantity that denotes measureable quantities in quantum mechanics; they give meaning to the deep chaos that is involved in the quantum world. And in my quantum world, those eigenvectors are always changing. This is yet another change in my life, where the wavefunctions are so unpredictable that I can't ever predict where I'll be in time, but I can predict how fast I'll be going: too fast. One more physics analogy before you get TOO bored: a whole bunch of eigenvectors with the same eigenvalues (something that helps to define eigenvectors, just more physics talk) form an eigenspace, which is like a mathematically individual situation. So, while my eigenvectors always look different, they occupy the same eigenspace, and are all held together by the same set of values. That's a little history behind the name. Who said physics couldn't try to be poetic? I did. So there. School for me starts tomorrow, when I go shopping to hunker down for my last undergraduate year. Time to start a new vector.