It must be the winter term...
Feb. 2nd, 2005 06:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
onefixedstarbecause I see groups of students huddled around computers all over the department, working feverishly on their (massive, all-consuming) statistics assignments. I'm taking a certain evil pleasure in watching them, leavened by a healthy dose of sympathy (and anyone who wants to know why need only look back at my entries from around this time last year).
My study group this afternoon was full of very sweet, undoubtedly very smart Chinese girls, none of whom wanted to say anything. It took me nearly ten minutes to get them to come up with war, plague, and famine as the main ways of killing off lots of people and keeping the population in check. It may have been partly my fault, though. I foolishly decided to take a new type of cold medication before I left in the hopes of making it through the study group without coughing up a lung and it hit me hard--I almost wasn't able to walk across campus. I seem to be all better now, though. Jumping up and down for an forty minutes trying to get people to react followed by a brisk walk in February weather really helped to wake me up.
Next up, writing comments on another student's proposal, reviewing my field notes from today's interview (which went quite well and was amazingly short, mostly because a lot of the questions weren't applicable), and writing up notes from Monday night's Graduate Students' Union meeting to present at next week's Graduate Sociology Students' Association meeting. And then dinner with Southerner, which I'm looking forward to with great anticipation.
My study group this afternoon was full of very sweet, undoubtedly very smart Chinese girls, none of whom wanted to say anything. It took me nearly ten minutes to get them to come up with war, plague, and famine as the main ways of killing off lots of people and keeping the population in check. It may have been partly my fault, though. I foolishly decided to take a new type of cold medication before I left in the hopes of making it through the study group without coughing up a lung and it hit me hard--I almost wasn't able to walk across campus. I seem to be all better now, though. Jumping up and down for an forty minutes trying to get people to react followed by a brisk walk in February weather really helped to wake me up.
Next up, writing comments on another student's proposal, reviewing my field notes from today's interview (which went quite well and was amazingly short, mostly because a lot of the questions weren't applicable), and writing up notes from Monday night's Graduate Students' Union meeting to present at next week's Graduate Sociology Students' Association meeting. And then dinner with Southerner, which I'm looking forward to with great anticipation.
