More than you'll ever want to know abt cornfields and stats

The third week is ending. The work is getting interesting and I am getting excited abt it. The cornfields are a little higher than when I first came here; they now look more like cornfields than grass. By the end of the summer they will prob be golden and higher than a man. Fun.
I am also seriously thinking abt giving the GRE within the next month. I know a week would be more than enough for me to brush up on the kind of math you get quizzed on it, but I can't make myself open that book. I keep putting it off, which is ofcourse not a good thing. I really want to take it while I'm in Iowa, coz a) I don't have much of nething going on and b) it is so convenient: the test center is right here on campus. Unlike back at MHC where it is 20 mins away in another town. I think I need to set a date and register. Once I've paid the $120 it costs to take the test, I will defintely buckle down and get it over with. Mmmmm.....yes, I think that's what I'll do.

23 and counting!!!

I feel so old!! I think its more than time that I got out of school, atleast undergrad. Everyone around me is 2 years younger than I am!!! Man makes me feel old.
And yeah, HB to me :D
P.S. Thank you so much everyone for the wishes!

Watup?

Nothing much interesting to report. This is summer is like being in school...i have to learn new things, i have assignments (sort off), meetings, frustrations...and at the end of it all, I have to turn in a paper and give a presentation. So yeah, this summer is very much like being in school, and very, very, VERY different from my past 2 summers, when I worked at Explo, and my every waking moment was scheduled by some1 else!
This time around, I like the work (or u may say the lack thereoff), but the ppl are a bit limited; there are only 7 of us. At Explo, there were 100(!!) of us counselors. So the pool of ppl you could hang out with was a little bigger.
Hey...you win some, you lose some.

Wo chali, wo chali...

Here's to my favorite eldest sister...

!!!!!HAVE A GREAT TIME IN ISLO!!!!!

And keep safe.

Can't think of a title

Well, life in Ames continues on. I was given a bunch of reading to do, so I'm doing that...slowly. I'll get my data set on Wed hopefully, and then the frustration with coding will begin.
I'm keeping this short and sweet. Cheerio.

P.S. More pics from my wild wild week at N.C. State:

http://storm.rsmas.miami.edu/~dkofron/SAMSIpics/

And we have lift-off!!!!

I FINALLY got internet access in my room!!! For the past two days it felt like I was cut off from the world, even thou I checked my email at the computer lab in the dorm. Anyway, enough of that. On to wat's been happening in the last 3 days.
As y'all probably know, I arrived in Iowa on Sun. I have two words for the Iowa weather: HUMID and HUMID!! Even though the temp might not be so high, but because it is so humid you sweat all the time and basically feel limp. On the upside...the dorms are air-conditioned!! :D
There are 3 women in the program, and we are all sharing a suite. Which basically translates into 2 rooms sharing a bathroom. The other two are roomates, aka I have a room to myself!! In other words, the living arrangement are great! The dorm was built only 3,4 years ago, so its fairly new and in great shape.
Onto my work. This week is basically just orientation and figuring out what we will be doing for the rest of the summer. We have 1 hr meetings introducing us to the 3 different stats software, 3 days this week, and a couple of meetings with our mentors (which are full professors here at the Uni). So basically we have nothing to do!!
The fun will start next week, so stay tuned!

Hiatus

Back in Mass. Leaving for Iowa tomorrow. I had a great time in Raliegh incase you missed the last 2 blogs! All of us there just clicked together beautifully, from the first day. It seemed we had known each other for weeks, rather than just a couple of days. Now my expectations are really high for my time in Iowa. I know it is naive to expect this sort of dynamic chemistry there, but I can't help myself.
So I wait with some trepedition for tomorrow, when I'll meet the 6 people I will be living with and working with for the next 8 weeks. Will ofcourse post all developments on this blog. So stay tuned.

It's the end, my friends part II a.k.a. Bowling is GREAT!!!!

I went bowling tonight! For the first time ofcourse! Had a blast, to say the least. I got 4, yes read my lips, 4, as in F-O-U-R, 4 strikes!! And numerous spares!! It was awesome!
Of course I don't remember the number of balls I out in the gutter :P

It's the end, my friends

So we are nearing the end. The lectures are over and now we have to 'analyze' our data and prepare the presentation for tomorrow morning. I have to say thou, this workshop wasn't as exciting as I thought it would be. I mean, I had a lot of fun hanging out (once I got over the humor thing! :P) I thought we would be spending 2 days in a lab collect data ourselves and then analyzing it, like "real" scientists! But we got handed a disc which already had the data. We were in the lab for barely half an hour, and it was more of a tour than an oppurtunity to learn how applied mathematicians work! So, yes, I was disappointed.
Now I know why I didnt go on with computer science after o'levels: I don't have the patience to debug codes! For the past two days I have been trying to get a stupid program to run!! And I'm working with a math software, not even a real comp lang. My hats off to the all the computer ppl!
I'm off tomorrow afternoon. Will spend abt 36 hrs in Mass then head over to Iowa on Sun. Looking forward to it, hopefully it'll be much better than this workshop!