Finalsy!

Today was the first of two reading days before finals begin on Thursday. I have a final each day: Baby Physics is Thursday afternoon, Thermo is Friday morning and Calc is the morning of the following Monday. I looked at my time running time sheet for the lab and realized how few hours I spent actually "clocked in" last week. I think this week, though I have studying to do, will hold a much needed opportunity to get back to work on the AGU stuff. To wit, the science is basically done (Matt may have a few more plots to print out if he can fix one bug) and the balance of the business involves making a mostly good-looking poster to present on my day of reckoning. I have been using PowerPoint and I am not a PowerPoint master so I don't feel like I can make a supreme poster but I can certainly make a poster that looks good and...oh yeah, has the important stuff like the actual research results. Maybe by the next time Marc sends me somewhere to present, I will have wrapped my skills around some poster making program.

I have mentioned before that I benefit from having synthesis between at least two of my classes - that's to say they are covering related topics - at all times but lately, I have done myself one better. The final topic of the semester in Baby Physics was magnetism, following on the heels of electricity, and it doesn't take a rocket surgeon to see how well that connects to working in the MIRL. At the very least, it keeps my motivation up.

That seems to be all the news from my end; everything around here is pretty quiet otherwise, though I did get to attend a nice hang last Saturday at Nick and Michaela's in honor of Effenburger's birthday. The whole gang was there. Woopee!