Things have been good lately. Very good, actually, if not stressful. I gave my thesis manuscript to my committee less than 24 hours before I left for vacation at Holden Beach. Then I had a wonderful week at the beach...can you believe I've been engaged for one whole year? So now I'm back at home, packing and trying to prepare for things to come ( Read more... )

Official wedding plans have been made! We are getting married at 1pm on June 2, 2007 at St. Rose Church in N. Syracuse, NY by Father Jerome. We are leaning towards having the reception at a hotel as opposed to a restaurant/banquet facility because it comes with discounts for out-of-town guests, a free room for us, and we will probably hold the ( Read more... )

I got a call yesterday with an official offer from Volpe! I'll be working in Cambridge starting August!!! Sadly, I was not able to negotiate a salary bump-up because the highest they start intern positions is as a grade 9 level, but salary is still pretty good and it's 1) only for a year anyways, and 2) only my internship. I'm just happy to have ( Read more... )

It's all very tentative, but I think I got the internship with Volpe Transportation Center in Cambridge, MA. It's the one I wanted. I still have to wait for HR to contact me and go through a background check and probably negotiate salary, and I won't be confident in this until I sign a contract. However....I e-mailed Stephen Popkin today and got ( Read more... )

I'm not defending until July. Nothing I can do about it, it's just going to take longer than expected to get drafts back from my advisor. I'm worried about when in July I'll get to defend, I need to go on vacation that first week, and who knows what my committee's plans will be the rest of the weeks. I need that vacation, I wanted it to be ( Read more... )

I had an interview at the Volpe Transportation Center today in Boston, MA. It went really well, I liked them a lot and I think they liked me, I had a lot of ins being that I'm a UConn student and I've worked with Volpe on a contract project before. I even talked to HR about pay and benefits, it seems like they really might want me. Now it may ( Read more... )

I applied to this standing internship program at the Volpe National Transportation Center (A research center for the Department of Transportation) in Cambridge, MA. I got a call last week asking me to forward on my information via e-mail so that it could be passed around to the directors of the different departments at the center. I had made it ( Read more... )

I had an internship interview today. It was very odd because I went with another student in my program also looking for an internship. Basically, they just wanted to check us out and chat with us, they have no definite internships at the moment, but may have things in the future based on our availability. I refuse to go anywhere until August. ( Read more... )

I had my second (or third?) breakdown since entering grad school. My goodness, I'm a mess. I finally confessed to David in said breakdown how utterly incapable I am at handling criticism, the stress I am under, and this stupid need to not fail at anything no matter what. Oh yes, and how I am unwilling to give up on anything, including projects ( Read more... )

I'm severely depressed. I have been for the past couple of weeks. It's my thesis. I defended my proposal in September. Then it took me until the end of October to revise my survey, prepare it for web deployment, and pilot it to make sure it was readable and didn't take an extraordinary amount of time. I just got my IRB approved yesterday. It' ( Read more... )