Garnet's Life Adventures

First two days of term 2

I've just finished with the second day of term two and all I can say is WOW, I was right when I told some of you yesterday that this term was going to be a doozie!! For those of you who missed it, yesterday we got a 12 page paper today to read over tonight and give an hour long presentation on it tomorrow!! (next 3 weeks are all the same as today - just different paper topics) The part they neglect to tell you is when you read this 12 page paper you then have to go and read all the supplement info on-line and in my case print out 2 more papers before you can fully understand the topic enough to present it in front of the whole class. This work is done in groups of 3, of course I got the group where everyone wanted to go home early so we're going to email our separate sections of power point presentations to each other at 6pm tonight - I'm not a fan of this method, but I was outnumbered. LUCKILY the groups change weekly!!!
The following 2 weeks we have to write up a grant proposal to be handed in and graded :( Good practice, but TONS of research and work that will go along with that.

So my group gave our presentation today and all went well - better than I thought it would to be honest! It was nice to be done with classes at noon. Susan, Sacha, Meredith, Luci, and I had lunch at uni together. Susan & I then went to the library to read for 1 hour before going to the gym. We both joined the gym today! It was good fun, BUT to be honest I think we are officially geeks now, I'm afraid to admit this, but while we were on the rowing machine we were trying to think of ways to make the time go by faster . . . we ended up talking about the cytokine from the paper we're reading for tomorrow's lecture - is that bad or what!?!?!?!?!?

Well I'm off to grab some dinner & then finish reading the second paper for class.

posted by Sara @ 5:06 pm