Going with the flow
Blake Mincey’s been soldier and professional drummer. Now at 39 (and father of toddler) he’s finishing his physics degree and looking for what’s next.
From childhood, Blake Mincey wanted to know how the world works. He still doesn’t have all the answers, but at this point in his life, he has amassed enough life experience and academic training to feel as if he’s made some progress.
The 39-year-old Georgia native is set to graduate this spring with his bachelor’s degree in physics from Harvard College — decades after his search for answers to big questions began. His path has been interesting if not direct.
“As a kid, I wanted to know why things were the way they were,” he said. “And in high school, physics and chemistry really fascinated me, because I started finally getting real concrete answers for all this curiosity that I had.”
Read more in the Harvard Gazette
