Okay, I guess I am awake, but I don't want to be awake. I'm on the positive side of feeling like $hit. I did get all of the grading finished last night and posted the scores for my students. I'm going to pass back papers today, so I don't have to carry anything around with me. I feel asleep (this was before grading) while drinking chicken ( Read more... )

The weekend has been pretty slow--just grading papers & watching movies. I'm not as far as I wanted to be in grading, but I put a good dent in it and might be able to finish it all today. I also got bored/po'ed and decided to sort the stack of papers on my desk that were waiting to be sorted. Most of them are currently in a pile on the floor to ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a weird day in lab. The PCR I did didn't work. I apparently goofed. I also decided to stab my thumb with my desk for some innane reason. Pretty bad too. Teach me to play with odd bits of tape on desks without checking for sharp spots first ( Read more... )

I just finished my Molecular Genetics exam. It wasn't too bad, but there were points that I completely blanked on which protein name went with which function. I get the big picture, just can't memorize the fricking names. We'll see on Thursday or next Tuesday how I did ( Read more... )

The life of a student: The to do list (studying, grading, reading, etc.) is steadily decreased during the week, but there's always has a fair amount of things set aside for the weekend in preparation for the week to come. I look forward to a full 48 hours that can be devoted entirely to catching up and becoming ahead for the next week. However, ( Read more... )

Well, the holiday weekend is over and I'd had my first day of summer classes. I'm taking a graduate Statistics class (or as one of the other TA's calls it, Bean Couting 101) and teaching a lab. It went fairly well. The STAT class is going to be pretty fast paced. The prof lectures mostly verbally with only some board writing & overheads--so that's ( Read more... )