The short version, as much as I can ( Read more... )

The boys just got back from Neuroscience and reported a poster featuring the project I've been setting up to work on for the next six months to a year or more.

Doh!

At least if I got scooped, I got scooped by Harvard.

Injected animal with terminal dose of anesthetic at 9:08 AM.
Gave animal booster injection at 12:50 PM.
Animal is still unconscious at 1:18 PM.

Don't you just love that moment when you realize your only hope to get out at a reasonable hour is that your animal suddenly up and dies before you get your data?

Le sigh.

Cris & I were sick most of last week. This was mainly problematic because I was supposed to get a rough draft of my NSF GRFP application to my advisor by last Friday. I didn't work on it at all because I was using all my energy just to keep up with other things ( Read more... )

Short version: So I know what I'm going to do for my dissertation project, and it's going to take at least 6-8 months to get the equipment.

Doh!

...of joy experienced in my life. Coming back from the wedding, from 'sota, to being in the lab calibrating electrodes all day every day. In the hopes of having 10 usable electrodes for a surgery next week ( Read more... )

I think this is the first time I've actively had fun working on a homework assignment since I started grad school. This must have something to do with the fact that I'm completely off the rails in terms of what I'm focusing on vs. what the professor expects us to focus on ( Read more... )

Still working on the homework problem mentioned last night, and I'm trying to figure something out ( Read more... )

Our assignment this week: to write an outline for the design of an autonomous robot that could conduct search-and-rescue operations after an earthquake.

Um, DAMN.

So yeah, I'm having fun researching that one. Any suggestions?