I just booked my flight from Paris to Geneva for September and noticed something interesting. Air France’s fare for the one-hour flight was $7. Wow! However, the ‘taxes and fees’ were $140 :( Is this a realistic representation of the cost breakdown? Are taxes the majority of the cost of this travel? Or is the [...]

Here’s an update on my professional travels:
It appears that the trip to Paris in September for the workshop on particle physics electronics is on. My advisor told me he was adding my name to the list of presenters. But….the new news is that he thinks it would be a good idea if I extended that [...]