Summer is almost here…
It’s just one more week and I’m through with the semester from hell.
It’s not that any of the classes were that hard, though Marine Reaction and Transport comes close enough. The problem is that I got involved in many other activities and overextended myself again.
My last class was yesterday with Prof. A. Unfortunately, I had a team presentation to give, along with a group paper to turn in. My partner is a humanities type with little experience using PowerPoint, Keynote, or any other computer software for presenting… so… I had to do all the presentation design and development. For most classes I wouldn’t have sweated that too much, but this is Peter and Matt, both of whom I respect a lot and will be going out to sea with this summer. On top of that, I’m working with Peter on at least one DVD and now a video podcast expanding on the work in the previous DVD we made.
Thursday we (my project partner and I) met to layout the battle plan. “Hmm… We have a 15 page paper and a 20 minute presentation due in 20 hours…What should we do?”
Two all-nighters later, everything is done. The paper was turned in electronically a few hours late (as in this morning), but we had a kick-*$$ presentation that will now be leading to participation in a published paper working with the same data set and expanding the analysis I did for the project. The analysis was quite the pain in the you know where, as the data is old, incomplete, and from an area I know very little about. Then again, maybe that helped me, since I had few pre-conceived notions and no idea of what had or had not been tried before.
Just one more paper to write, three take home exams, and one in class exam. Then I can pass out. For a week. Except Tammy has a “Honey please finally do” list I have been ignoring now for months that needs some action. And then there is the summer activities plan. And, of course, I owe her about a week of snuggle time.
Oh, and in my copious free time, I have managed to get an entry or two up at The Other 95%, though I doubt I will be able to contribute to Coral Week even sitting on a couple hours of video of deep sea corals and deep sea trawl fishing effects. Arggghhh!
Soon.
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