Mission poster... completed!

I have a poster presentation at a regional meeting on Friday. I completed all the revisions to my poster this morning. All that's left is to print it out, something which I plan on doing on Thursday since I'll be up in the lab anyway for my remote sensing class. Now I just need to not work myself up into a nervous fit before the presentation. Luckily, doing a poster doesn't require me to actually get up in front of a group of people and speak. All I have to do is stand next to it for a couple of hours and answer questions.

I'm not going to subject you all to the poster itself. Trust me, I'd be able to see all your eyes glazing over from over the internet. XD

I can't believe the end of the semester is coming up so quickly. I only have like three more classes and then it's over. Then all I have left to get my Master's is my thesis work. Wow. I'm both excited and nervous about it.

I told my mom I might not ever get a PhD. She wanted to know why. "I graduated with my Bacherlor's during the tech bust. I'm getting my Master's just as they're talking about another depression. If I try to graduate with a PhD, I'll take the whole economy down!"

Theory vs Reality

How my day was to go in theory:

• Finish maps for part-time job


• Complete stats homework


• Lunch


• Complete poster for presentation on Friday


• Possibly write for rest of day

How my day actually went:

• Discover that I am locked out of the computer I was using to complete maps


• Work on poster


• Give self heart attack thinking I did something wrong with my graphs


• Realize graphs are fine


• Try to explain dpi to a professor and why upping a 72dpi image to 300dpi will not automatically make the image "better"


• Complete poster


• Check three other computer before finding one with Photoshop that I'm not locked out of


• Start finishing maps


• Fire drill


• Find out that fire drill is fire actual


• I DIDN'T GRAB THE THUMB DRIVE WITH MY FINISHED POSTER ON IT. Good to know my priorities are in order.


• False alarm. Troop back into building.


• Lunch


• Finish maps


• Work on stats homework


• Curse at stats homework


• Decide I will answer last two questions tomorrow


• Play a few games


• Realize that final assignment in stats is due next week and not after Thanksgiving


• Start looking through papers I can use for the assignment trying to find one with statistics I actually understand


• Panic


• Settle on paper about AIDS, even though it has nothing to do with my thesis because it's an easy read with nicely explained statistics


• Print paper


• Nearly crash computer


• Realize I need to turn in a copy and print paper again


• Nearly crash computer... again


• Give up and read maderr's latest story


• Post about day on LJ

Now to read this paper again. I've read it before, but it's been awhile.