Wednesday, April 20, 2005

Busy bee..err... yellow jacket

Eric and I had the same thought today about the fact that I haven't posted lately. I'm sorry. :-( It's just that I've been really busy and gone from school again. Major things that have happened?
I decided on MIT for graduate school. It really was the toughest decision of my life, but I'm still glad I chose MIT, even though I'm quite nervous and not 100% confident. But I know I need a change of pace and perspective, and I would regret thinking I had "settled" for GT or gone to Stanford just to enjoy the gorgeous weather. MIT's program is awesome, and it will be a great experience. And now I can finally weat that MIT shirt I bought when I was thinking of going there for undergrad.
Our senior design team did well at our review, and we won a trip to a conference in Florida in May. We just found out the launch was rescheduled for when we will be there, so I hope we get to catch that.
Gymnastics Nationals was awesome. We had a really good time, and we competed well for our small team. They're super pumped about next year and having everyone back from studying abroad, so I hope they do well. I was sad it was my last meet, but I did some good routines and had a great time, so it was an excellent end to my time on the Tech team.
As for graduation, I can't wait for this crappy school work to be over, but I'm getting sentimental! I agree with Jen's and Emily's blogs about this whole subject. I don't really feel like talking about it cuz it'll just make me sad. So, on a happier note, my parents come tomorrow, and despite all the work I have to do and the fact that they'll be down in 2 weeks again, I'm really happy they're going to be here.
Alright, back to work. I promise I'll update more when it gets closer to graduation and I have a little less work.

Monday, April 11, 2005

Ways to decide about graduate school...

flip a coin
get drunk and screw (I don't know how that will help)
get drunk and decide
get out a map and spin a bottle on it... which ever school it lands on you get to make out wi... err go to
you should decide based on how many hot guys there are at each school
put all your choices on a piece of paper and throw darts at them
write each one on a tennis ball and let someone juggle them and the first to hit the ground wins

Saturday, April 02, 2005

Grad School Part 3 - Stanford

I'm tired and still on east coast time, but I need to update you all on Stanford and everything. Here's a list:
- Stanford is gorgeous, the people are great, the campus is beautiful, and I think I would have a lot of fun here.
- The Master's program is awesome; very hands-on as well as good in-class instruction.
- The guy that does the Master's program doesn't have a PhD, and there isn't a person that does similar research with a PhD. So I would have to find an advisor who I match well with to advise my thesis.
- I got the NASA Harriet Jenkins fellowship, which is awesome. It's a good deal, but not quite the NSF or NDSEG (DoD) fellowship. I'm really happy about it though.
- I didn't get the NDSEG.
- NSF is lame and was supposed to tell us yesterday but decided not to tell us for a few more days.

Department Score: 7
School/Area Score: 9
Overall Score: 8

I need to send some e-mails, mull this all over, talk to the profs at GT, and freak out because I have no idea what I'm going to do.