For a four-day work week...
Sep. 5th, 2008 05:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quasigeostrophy...it sure felt like it was never going to end.
All the fun of sitting still, being quiet, writing down numbers, paying attention. Yes, science has it all.
-- Seymour Skinner
My advisor said today we should convince my committee to allow something under the new policies and get them to waive my MS comprehensive exam. She said I've done so well in my classes and am making independent forward progress in my research, and especially since I'm staying at Purdue for a PhD, I don't need one more test in rapid succession. I would have that comprehensive written exam, my oral thesis defense, and then fairly soon afterward next school year, my PhD qualifying exam. This way, I'd just have the thesis writing and oral defense for my MS before starting PhD work. She also said her grant proposals for ICE (the next project she wants to jump onto) may not be through the system by next fall, so I might need a semester of TA-ing to get funded. 'sokay, it would be good for me to do that if I end up at a university anyway. (She also said, and this speaks volumes, when commenting I could TA her atmospheric thermodynamics class, "It would be nice to have a good TA again." Her current one is my new labmate who has teaching experience.)
Got a few more hints for the as-yet-undone problems on my first math homework. Still not 100% confident I know how to finish them, but I also have a couple of reference books I need to unpack that ought to help.
This weekend, need/want to:
- Unpack above-mentioned reference and other books for my home office.
- Try to finish the above-mentioned math homework.
- Hit le Target for sundry necessities.
- Do laundry.
- Go on a bike ride.
ION, some peoples' heads are so far up their asses, they'll show up on endoscopy.
All the fun of sitting still, being quiet, writing down numbers, paying attention. Yes, science has it all.
-- Seymour Skinner
My advisor said today we should convince my committee to allow something under the new policies and get them to waive my MS comprehensive exam. She said I've done so well in my classes and am making independent forward progress in my research, and especially since I'm staying at Purdue for a PhD, I don't need one more test in rapid succession. I would have that comprehensive written exam, my oral thesis defense, and then fairly soon afterward next school year, my PhD qualifying exam. This way, I'd just have the thesis writing and oral defense for my MS before starting PhD work. She also said her grant proposals for ICE (the next project she wants to jump onto) may not be through the system by next fall, so I might need a semester of TA-ing to get funded. 'sokay, it would be good for me to do that if I end up at a university anyway. (She also said, and this speaks volumes, when commenting I could TA her atmospheric thermodynamics class, "It would be nice to have a good TA again." Her current one is my new labmate who has teaching experience.)
Got a few more hints for the as-yet-undone problems on my first math homework. Still not 100% confident I know how to finish them, but I also have a couple of reference books I need to unpack that ought to help.
This weekend, need/want to:
- Unpack above-mentioned reference and other books for my home office.
- Try to finish the above-mentioned math homework.
- Hit le Target for sundry necessities.
- Do laundry.
- Go on a bike ride.
ION, some peoples' heads are so far up their asses, they'll show up on endoscopy.
