James Gotshalk

Randolph High School

Class of 1983

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First Name	James
Last Name	Gotshalk
Graduation Year	Class of 1983
Gender	Male
City	N/A
State/Province	MA
Country	United States
Occupation	math & science
Married	No
Favorite School Memory	I have no favorite. I enjoyed learning in the classroom, and interacting with teachers and fellow students.
About Me	After graduating from MIT with a BS in physics, I worked for two years at NASAâ€™s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the VLBI Systems Group. At JPL, it was necessary to begin to learn in a more independent way, and to orient myself in a job where procedures were evolving. The position was in California, a bit of a culture shock, and almost every colleague had a PhD. Three years later, I attended graduate school in physics at the University of Texas at Austin, but I did not earn a degree. More recently, I have been studying actuarial science, and have reconnected to physics by reading Physics Today. I ...(read more)