Two months into a PhD on superconducting qubits, I watched the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics go to the experiment my whole field stands on. What Clarke, Devoret and Martinis showed in 1985, the equations behind it, and how it leads to the qubits my group works on.
My first real winter, in a small port town in Hokkaido. A town small enough to measure on foot, a staircase I'm still not sure was meant for people, ice cream at minus six, and why I'm glad to be going back to the equator.