Welcome to the Blog of the California Study Trip of 2017.

Like every year, the SMCR organizes a study trip. This time its destination is the ever-sunny California, where we will spend two and a half weeks cruising the coast.

The first half of our journey will be centered around “The Golden City”, San Francisco and the next half will take place in “The City of Angels”, Los Angeles after a short stop in Monterey which is in between the two. We will visit the state’s most prestigious universities and institutes. We will get to see the labs and workplaces of the physicists there, while learning about their research.

Even though we have managed to fit 13 of these visits in our schedule, they are definitely NOT the only thing that are going to keep us busy. If our brave students still have energy after visiting the gigantic Redwood trees, the unparalleled beauty of Yosemite and celebrating the Mexican-American culture during Cinco de Mayo, they will have plenty of free time to roam around and get to know these great cities on their own.

We will depart from the Huygens building this friday at 2 AM (yes, that early) and it would delight us to see you send us off, even though it is kind of understandable if you are too busy sleeping around that time.

We will try to keep you up to date with some new experiences and photos every day.

Wish us good luck,

Teun Maas, secretary of the Californicacie