Well, I thought that in light of my post regarding my meetings with the professors I would try to clarify the physiological nature of fine control (mainly so I don't look like some kind of weirdo). First off I think that pretty much everything I mentioned has been well-documented in the past and isn't anything outside the normal scope of human ( Read more... )

Ich haesse den Universitaet!!!!! Freaking $561 for ONE class!!!! It's bloody robbery. UTK is inarguably a bloodsucking vampire. This one last class is the last course I have to take, a prerequisite. After thinking about it the class isn't that hard, it's just hard for me to do it because I haven't any interest in it. German literature... as if that ( Read more... )

I just got back from meeting with two of the professors down at UT. Interesting people with interesting research (to me anyway). I go chronologically ( Read more... )

Well, it's more like nacht, but notwithstanding, here's my update for today (as if I have any regularity in my updates ( Read more... )

Well, today I passed the test at ACN (ahem, I mean "Jewelry Television by ACN"). That was the last day of my tortuous (for me!) morning/evening training classes. The instructors were nice enough people, but the scheduling has just been hell on me. I've never been a morning person, but getting up at about 6am one day and then staying till 12am the ( Read more... )

Well tomorrow is the last day of training and the final test (ooh, big test, ooh). I'll be glad to shift to a more "normal" schedule. 11am-7pm isn't optimal, but at least it's steady. I'll almost certainly have to work weekends too by their "lowest-on-the-totem-pole" mentality. I don't really relish that either, but so long as they can give me a ( Read more... )

Looks like the EEB program at UT is even more competitive this year. This is going to make things very difficult for me. The EEB admissions council seems to value math and numbers more highly than anything else. My overall GPA is really going to hurt me and may even prevent me from being considered for application. It's only a 2.6 or thereabouts. ( Read more... )

Well, got back from training just a bit ago. I had an e-mail from Dr. Greenberg to respond to, so I took care of that. Hopefully I can meet with him tomorrow and we can discuss the necessary stuff for graduate school. I really want to get in, there's so much for me to do in academia, it's intrinsically very rewarding ( Read more... )

Well, since everyone is doing it (and I have some free time), I'll go ahead and take the quiz too ( Read more... )

It's been a few days, but I'm updating again. Yesterday I started my training at ACN (again), but this time I began successfully. 6am is entirely too early to get up. And today I felt that 10:30am was entirely too late. Nevertheless, tonight I work at 4pm-12am. The same goes for Wednesday and then on Thursday and Friday I'm doing the accursed ( Read more... )