Start of School

I didn't get to post about this but: SCHOOL STARTED this week. I went to all of my classes already and I didn't have any classes today.

I've been working on my proposal for my research project for this semester. I'm really excited about it because I've almost got it done, I think. I talked to the research specialist that works for the program that's paying me for my research and she doesn't really know what to say about my proposal yet. She has to talk to other people and pass it around, which is ok by me because it's my first/second draft and I'd be glad to revise it. It's usually also the "background" or "introduction" section of the final paper for me.

This paper is mostly going to be an analysis of the results I get, instead of a discussion of what could have happened as with the last project I did for this program. I was very disappointed with my last project and I really want to do well on this one.

I'm not sure how much I'll stick to my goals, really well I hope, but let's see about it.

Funny thing, in a non-related way, for my Catholicism class one of our assignments throughout the semester is to keep up a blog related to our Service-Learning project.

The professor said something to the effect of, "it's good because you can't alter the time that you put up postings"... those who don't know or understanding how to use blogger would not be able to do that. But I took a crash course in all things blogger this summer and I feel pumped about it.

In my Physics class he's kind of asking us to do a lot of reading, but reading never hurt anybody.

In Psychology the prof seems really nice, I like her already, but I'm not too excited about the subject. I guess it stems from the fact that I think Psychologists always think they are right and you can't convince them otherwise. Mathematicians that I've met at conferences seem really laid back and they seem to let bigons be bigons, psychologists will not budge. If they believe there's such a thing as a chemical imbalance, no matter what context you are using the phrase in, they are right (Tom Cruise was the example she used in class).

But in other class news, Topology is going great already. We're going to go through 3 or so sections of the book every week, to be able to get through the entire book. It's not a complete waste if we don't, but at the same time it'd be nice.

I have to leave the lab space I'm at, but will continue this later... I just wanted to try to give a quick update. More coming soon...