Tomorrow is Fall Fest. I'm to present from 2-4PM which turns out to be very tragic for me. Also at 2PM tomorrow is when my beloved study abroad director from Australia is visiting. A complete chance event I will miss. However, I hope to get dinner with him tomorrow evening. I really do not like the structure/syntax of this paragraph. Moving on!
Below is my latest YouTube video, in which I talk about finishing up my Fall Fest poster and shooting a parkour video, which I also put on YouTube.
I also uploaded some recent fall pictures on campus, which you can find on my PhotoBucket.
With Fall Fest this week and out of the way, I have several weeks left of lab time before Thanksgiving Break. After Thanksgiving Break is the notorious start of Finals crunch, which I'll talk about below. I hope to get my diatom cells transformed with the plasmids I made. In order to do that, we'll have to visit colleagues in Rhode Island who have the tools to inject plasmids into diatoms. Diatoms are not supposed to have additional DNA plasmids in their cells, which is why it's hard to transform them.
Other than that, I'll need to summarize what I've done in a paper and write a proposal for my future directions in this project. I'll need to do a lot more background reading to cite different examples and experiments. I'll start writing after Thanksgiving Break, which might be the end of my lab work for the semester. However, depending on where I am at in the project, I might be able to do some catching up in the evenings while I'm doing finals.
I'm a little unsure about my finals for two classes at this point. We're way behind in my French class and have yet to be given an exam. I think we might have a take home "midterm" exam and maybe a take home final exam, but we haven't discussed it yet. I'm also not sure about my final exam in my Population Genetics class.
I just started my final project in Ecology of Infectious Diseases. My project load never ends. For the first part of the semester, I was busy with finishing my plasmids, but then midterms hit me. First it was my Ecology of Infectious Disease take home midterm which was a lot of work, but that was rewarded with a long weekend at home. ...but then when I came back to Clark I had to work on my Population Genetics take home midterm. After I finished that midterm, I had to complete my Fall Fest poster. All I want to do is have a long restful weekend at home for Thanksgiving before a crazy three weeks of finals in December. We'll see how that all goes though.
Oh, and I'm signing up for Spring 2011 classes soon. I always forget how messy the semester gets from the start of midterms onwards.
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