Adelaide

Today I finished the last bits of my undergrad courses. I’ll walk the stage and get my official degree papers in about a month, then I’ll start working on my masters degree -!!

Haven’t posted in a month... I’ve been super busy between studying and wrapping up my major projects to finish out this degree.

One of my grant applications was rejected but I was waitlisted for the significantly more prestigious one. If someone doesn’t accept their offer then it might end up in my lap.

09.03.26 - monday

Today is my first day feeling somewhat capable of coherent thought after having food poisoning. I took advantage and started/finished the methodology section of my paper. Even though I hate the thought of having to present my work to a large group of people in April, I am starting to get excited to share the research I’ve been doing all year, especially after getting positive feedback and being able to answer my supervisors questions intelligently. I also volunteered for a campus event at the start of May, so that’s something nice and easy to look forward to.

07.03.26 - saturday

I’m sick in bed today with food poisoning. I was up all night in the throes of it but things have significantly calmed down now. Mostly I just have really intense body aches from being bent around the tub and toilet weird for so long and my stomach still isn’t 100%, but anything is better than how I felt last night.

Highlights from this week:

Presented my preliminary experiment findings and interpretations to my lab + a visiting postdoc (terrifying)

Supervisor took the lab out for lunch and I had a really tasty sandwich. I think the side salad gave me food poisoning though because that’s the only thing I ate out of the norm lately and the others that got the same sandwich as me with the fries instead are all fine

Watched the ashley madison and handsome devil documentaries

Finished the participant sessions for my study!

Completed the related works section for my paper

100/100

Lots to say!

Today I received my official offer letter for graduate studies. I’m so extremely excited and I’m going to be fully funded!!!

I also found out I made the deans list for the 24/25 academic year. Also very exciting but it definitely gets outshone by the above.

My supervisor gave me a few shoutouts during a presentation and he congratulated me on getting almost all of my data collection done last week and this week. It feels so good to feel like I’m meeting his expectations :)

98/100 & 99/100

Long day today but I got a lot done! My bus was running super late so I stopped at the grocery store to pick up some healthy-ish foods for lunches. I’m trying to keep it cheap too which is hard because canadian food prices are crazy but I got a bag of frozen edamame, frozen garlic veg pasta, dessert tofu, and garlic powder for $10 which feels like a HUGE win

I ran a few more participants sessions for my study and I’m finding it extremely satisfying to watch the data settle into normal curves as my N grows.

97/100

The grind continues. One of my longitudinal participants finished today! The other two should finish in the next couple days as well.

Tomorrow I have 8(!!!) participant sessions booked. I am already planning on going to the campus bar after for maybe a burger and definitely a beer with my earplugs in and my R scripts to keep me company.

3 participant sessions

More work on my analysis scripts - added a few more ANOVAs and started adding analysis methods for qualitative data

Playtested my labmates game