Weirdness
At work today I put together most of the presentation I have to do on Wednesday for the Natural Sciences Summer Seminar Series. I think prof. Conover is underestimating the knowledge of the students who will be there, telling me that instead of using ns as an abbreviation for nanoseconds, I should write out billionths of a second because most people might not know what "nano" stands for. I think nanoseconds isn't a word that is frequently used, but most people know enough that it's an insanely short period of time.
At least I'm not freaking out so much about this now that I have some powerpoint stuff down. I've never used this program before, so Roy had to teach me a few things (like how to get the text to scroll on if you hit the mouse button or something like that). I have 13 slides (6 of them are more substantial than the others) and so I think that will fill 10 minutes quite nicely. We are going to do a practice run through tomorrow afternoon with all three components. Of the three, mine seems the most unrelated: genetic searches. It's more analysis and explaining what the GA does than anything else. Oh well.
The world is such a small place. I was leaving the dining hall this evening, when I saw someone who looked vaguely familiar to me in the tray line. I waited for him to exit and as he left, I realized that I did know him -- he's a family friend of the Frey's. He came to Crossroads about a month or so ago when I had met him. He's a teacher in Fort Kent and was in the area taking classes at Orono, and is now at Colby for the week. He ended up coming and playing wallyball with a bunch of us from church down at the Y.
That was a lot of fun tonight. After he left it was 4 on 5...with one team having three girls and one guy (the one I was on). And we actually won a game!
At least I'm not freaking out so much about this now that I have some powerpoint stuff down. I've never used this program before, so Roy had to teach me a few things (like how to get the text to scroll on if you hit the mouse button or something like that). I have 13 slides (6 of them are more substantial than the others) and so I think that will fill 10 minutes quite nicely. We are going to do a practice run through tomorrow afternoon with all three components. Of the three, mine seems the most unrelated: genetic searches. It's more analysis and explaining what the GA does than anything else. Oh well.
The world is such a small place. I was leaving the dining hall this evening, when I saw someone who looked vaguely familiar to me in the tray line. I waited for him to exit and as he left, I realized that I did know him -- he's a family friend of the Frey's. He came to Crossroads about a month or so ago when I had met him. He's a teacher in Fort Kent and was in the area taking classes at Orono, and is now at Colby for the week. He ended up coming and playing wallyball with a bunch of us from church down at the Y.
That was a lot of fun tonight. After he left it was 4 on 5...with one team having three girls and one guy (the one I was on). And we actually won a game!