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Philip W Mason
A Little About MeGrew up on small family farm in rural Gorham, Maine in the 1970's. Farm life instilled in me a strong sense of values, including resilience, responsibility, and the necessity of te...view moreA Little About MeGrew up on small family farm in rural Gorham, Maine in the 1970's. Farm life instilled in me a strong sense of values, including resilience, responsibility, and the necessity of team-work.When I graduated high school, I attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, starting off in mechanical engineering before switching to physics, and graduating with a Bachelor of Science in 1991. From there, I went to Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, earning my masters and finally a PhD in physics in 1998 with my dissertation "An Optically Detected Magnetic Resonance Study of Point Defects in Wide Band-gap Semiconductors."I have, over the course of my career, put those degrees to good use at various high-tech companies including a five-year stint at the Bell Labs Division of Lucent Technologies.And, for many of the last fifteen years, I have suffered with serious mental health issues.I have had numerous in-patient and out-patient treatment sessions and have learned about human frailty and gained a better understanding of the human condition. This has taught me to have more compassion for the world. I have also come to learn that my mental illness is not my fault, for there was nothing I could have done to prevent it. I have come to accept it, have received medical care for it, and am now going through the process of healing from it. It is a very emotional recovery at times, and I now have hope for a much brighter future.I am now able to love who I am and want to share that sense of hope and love with the rest of the world.view less