...aaand I'm done for the night. Tomorrow, final formatting of tables, appendices, fonts, spacing, etc. While we made giant strides in the thesis project, I didn't meet my personal objective of reading the posted articles for Wednesday's final. Might as well get that printed out now so it's ready for the highlighter and margin scribbles tomorrow

Took today and tomorrow off work to focus on school. I'm really grateful that at this point I've had the intern talk with my boss. While my fears were confirmed and the company is in batten-down-hatches mode and unable to hire me, at least I'm not killing myself now trying to score those points and sacrificing desperately needed study time ( Read more... )

My group left about ten minutes ago and I just emailed our Professors the draft of our final thesis report. We're still doing a ton of general polishing up tomorrow. We are presenting THIS THURSDAY evening, and I have a final Wednesday and another Thursday afternoon. I don't even know how this week is going to happen.

Why must acai sorbet be so freaking delicious? I finished off a pint that barely had a dent made in it. So much for my run, but OMG so good!

Now it's study time. I wish I'd saved some of it for a little break later.

I took today off my internship so I could devote the day to my project. My team, along with a number of others, asked for an extension. I am beyond grateful we were diligent about keeping both our faculty advisers in the loop about interactions with the client and they were well aware we received our final data output much later than scheduled. ( Read more... )

It took me one year, two months, and twelve days, but here I am:


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I am cleaning up data like a motherfucker.

I'm reading a case study about Dove brand's "Campaign for Real Beauty". It notes that after some preliminary work with psychologists, Unilever surveyed 3,000 women from 10 different countries to test some of the specialists' hypotheses. Out of all those women, only 2% chose to describe themselves as beautiful. Ouch! Most respondents answered " ( Read more... )

Yesterday evening, I met up with a couple of friends who graciously agreed to participate in a "Listening Lab" study for my thesis project. It was pretty easy, consisting of navigating through a couple of different websites and describing their impressions and experiences as they went. The client provided us with a number of $20 Visa gift cards to ( Read more... )

Holy Whoa! Kate Winslet. Vanity Fair.
Trust me.