Hey friends,
Aarie, yes, plan a fun night for us! I emailed Chris back. Hopefully it's okay if I don't go to orientation... :| I said you could tell me what you go over...
Lily, yeah Dan got two of his marks back already. The course I took is notorious for long wait times before getting marks (I am not exaggerating... Last time I took this type of course, I took it from Sept to Dec and didn't get my mark until April of the next year... Yeah...). So I am not too concerned about me, but more about you guys!
Oh yeah and my application for Food Science will probably be approved or not by early next month so I am a bit nervous for that. I have planned out the rest of my degree if I get accepted, and I really really hope I do get it! I just don't know what my chances are since if you are above third year, acceptance is on a "case by case basis" and when I talked to the person in charge, she didn't give me any more information than that so... I just don't know how likely it is.
Anyways, I agree with Aaron. I never thought about it, but when he mentioned that 3 months is a long time, I was like... hey it kind of is a long time! And, again as Aaron said, I can understand where your dad is coming from. Working is always good when you have the chance (and as with any loan, the sooner you pay it off, the better... ie, as much as you can before grad). Having said that, it is a really good opportunity to have some really exciting/new experiences soo...
Have you planned out some stops? Maybe if you plan out when you'll be where and how long you want to spend at each place, you can decide how much time you need in total, you know? Like, if you really need 3 months or you'll be missing out on a lot, then do 3 months. If you don't want to spend so much time in some locations, maybe you can cut down the amount of time (maybe two months? one and a half months?). I would try to cut it down a little bit if it really bothers your dad, but if you can't without ruining the trip, then... I guess it's your call. If you need the three months, I'd probably just do three months, if I were you. But that's just me and I am not one to let my parents dictate things like that soooooooo... :|
So about 45% of me wants to die right now.
I woke up at 5am so I could have breakfast, etc and work on my work term report for co-op. I was working with the data Monday night and analyzing it last night. After Monday, I realized how much data I really have and it's ridiculous. It's like, when you do an experiment (or so I thought), I envision you being like okay if I add 5ml of this to the original, I hypothesize that X will occur. I will test this and report the results. But for my experiment (it's mine as I have been the only one working on it from start to finish with the exception of some help from my supervisor), my supervisor kept telling me to do diff tests. So it's ridiculous because it was like, oh let's test how this type of organism survives in different types of solutions. Oh, let's try different organisms. Oh, let's see if they survive on fruit instead of agar. Oh, let's try different amounts of time to solubilize. Oh let's try putting it in the freezer for comparison... etc etc etc.
Is it just me or is that ridic? And I do 6 reps for everything so there are a billion kajillion analyses/comparisons I need to do. I was so overwhelmed, Miao was like okay, there is nooooo way you can do all of those so just focus on some key ones and let your supervisor know. <-- don't know why this won't change colour... too tired to dwell
So I guess I will do that. Augh. So I am basically done working with the data; I am doing a writeup now. It is due tomorrow. I have not started writing. It is 1500-3000 words.
So now hopefully you all understand the 45% death statement. I know it sounds ridic, but I went to sleep at 1am yesterday (woke up at 5am) and 2am the night before. I am at work 8 hours a day and come home and have to do this...
I am so tired I don't even make sense. I rubbed face wash into my hair yesterday when I was showering... If that is any indication or anything...
Drinking black tea and updating you guys. But I should work on my report right now.
Hope to see you all somewhat soon!
-Chels
PS- Ann, wear a swine flu mask!
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