Since it's entirely too early to start doing actual work, I am now going to delight you people with another long rambly post about what I did over the weekend. Just in case you aren't dying to know every detail (altho I'm sure you are), I'll give a quick summary: four day weekend, birthday present shopping, Toronto wandering, apartment hunting, ( Read more... )

In...37 minutes I will be giving my major research project presentation. In one hour and 37 minutes, I will be finished with that, and finished with the last assignment of the semester. And, other than a couple assignments during my internship, finished with school, possibly for the rest of my life (altho not likely, let's be honest ( Read more... )

And you know what that means: brain dump post! Yay!

SchoolThings are going not too badly on this front. Major project is a pain in the ass, but that was pretty much assumed to happen from September (altho I certainly hoped otherwise). My classes this semester aren't too bad. Advanced Stats and Spreadsheets are both pretty easy, altho I wasn't ( Read more... )

Well, that's it. I have officially finished the last thing I have to do for this semester (stats exam, finished about 10 minutes ago). Holy crap that went quickly (the semester, not the exam). It's always nice to look back on something I was really worried about and think it went well. Yay coming to new places, meeting new people, and getting ( Read more... )

First things first: a quick shout-out to Ashley. Look! I'm posting! Also congrats on finding my lj. Very difficult detective work on your part. Indeed ( Read more... )

Smell is a really funny sense. Well, okay, funny isn't the right word. But still. I've always found the whole trigger of memory thing very cool, and the idea that some places/things smell right while others are just horribly wrong. Of course the reason I'm thinking about this today is because I was sitting next to a guy who smelled really good ( Read more... )

So I'm sitting in class right now, theoretically learning about how to use nVivo. Except we can't access it on our computers, and I managed to fiddle with it a bit yesterday, so I'm basically ignoring the class. Lucky you folks, lj post ( Read more... )

Good morning ladies, gents, and neuter. And welcome to November! Okay, so I'm a day late. But whatever. Sitting in the empty RAP classroom, listening to my iPod, and wondering if I did a couple questions horribly wrong on my stats midterm. The theory behind what I did was sound (using z-scores to figure out a raw score based on probability), ( Read more... )

Just finished my very first graduate program midterm. And it was . . . I dunno. I was the first person to finish, which will surprise no one who's ever taken an exam with me. But it's always a worrying thing to be the first person to leave the room. At least I've found it so. I can't help wondering if I somehow missed a question (hidden ( Read more... )

So last night, for the first time in I don't even know how long, I went out to the bars. It took a few phone calls to get everything organized in terms of who was driving and such, but shortly after 10 a few RAPers (myself, Ashley, Ava, and Claire; plus Claire's boyfriend and Ava's best friend) were sitting at a table at Manhattan's, one of Barrie ( Read more... )