Who is Dick? on the top of CalTech Library

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We miss youuuu Dickkkk! (Okay… reading that name in English, you just can’t think innocent thoughts 😂)

At first glance, I thought “wait…what??”
Because in slang, Dick = little Pikachu ⚡️
But then Dr. Bunchar  Tanaboonsombat kindly explained with a photo…
Ohhh right, it’s the nickname for Richard!

 

So who was the mysterious Richard that got such a bold love confession on top of our university library building?

❤ None other than the extraordinary Richard Feynman ❤
Nobel Prize–winning physicist, and one of the most beloved science teachers of all time.

His students loved him so much that even 30 years after his passing, they hung this tribute up high on campus.

 And honestly, if you’ve ever read or listened to Feynman, you’d get it—he wasn’t just brilliant, he was hilarious. You can check out Dr. Buncha’s podcast (super fun storytelling, even featuring Maxwell recently!).

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💡 Now, how does a biologist like me end up lost in Feynman’s world?
Well… it started with me struggling to write a “statement of purpose” for my scholarship report.

I love research. I don’t hate teaching. I actually enjoy tutoring friends and juniors.
But if I had to give up research? I’d probably dry up and die 🌱☠️

This impressed me that 'The two sides of the coin benefit each other.'

While the importance of research for a teaching professor is clear, 

my question was the opposite: 'If I love doing research, why do I need to teach?' 

That’s when I remembered a talk by Prof. Jisnuson Svasti., who once flashed this slide: “Teaching and research: Opposite faces of the same coin?”

 

 This is the article: Teaching and research: Opposite faces of the same coin?

 

And it clicked.
If you love research, teaching isn’t just an obligation.
It’s a way of crystallizing ideas, throwing them like little research boomerangs 🪃 at students, and then watching those ideas grow bigger than you imagined.

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So, here I am. Writing scholarship reports ✍️, reading Feynman’s stories, and following Dr. Buncha’s shows like a fangirl.
And somewhere along the way, I realized:
Maybe I don’t have to choose between teaching and research.
Maybe both sides of the coin can make life… balance. 😉

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