So as of 11:05 am yesterday morning I have passed the defense of my master thesis and as of 2:30 this morning I have finished my edits...so I just need to make the final formatting changes and send the thesis to the binders and I'm officially done with my masters. As for the defense it-self it went amazingly smoothly with the committee asking easy ( Read more... )

So I turned in the defense draft of my thesis into my Committee this Monday, after a major two week push. The loss of this major weight feels great, and has ended a major source of anxiety. Though there is still the defense it-self, but I'm becoming less worried about it since the head of my committee e-mailed me to say that my thesis was looking ( Read more... )

So I just got a phone call this morning, I'm in at UNC Chapel Hill and they are offering me two years of full funding as a TA/grader till I can find a research project to sign on with. Now I just have to wait for the paperwork to get here and it will be official, and I will also have to finish my master's thesis so I can leave Madison. So that is ( Read more... )

So I spent Thursday through Saturday in Chapel Hill, NC interviewing for the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering in their School of public health and touring the town. The interview went really well, running 10 minutes over time allotted, and I really clicked with my potential adviser. She even said I was a strong candidate for a ( Read more... )

had flurries Sunday night and on Monday, and it's below freezing most mornings now. Looks like winter is really setting in up here.

hello all it has been awhile but I feel it is time for an update. Well I have a month left before the fall semester starts back up for me, and alot of things that need to be taken care before but at lest one is of the list as of yesterday. I bought my first bike since I was 12 yesterday, got a Scott Sub 30 which is a bruiser of a road bike with ( Read more... )

I'm home on the first real day of Summer in Wisconsin, with the high at 81 F, after spending three days and two nights in tick county. I went on a 21 mile backpacking trip with 9 Wisconsin Hoofers to Nicolet National Forest in NE Wisconsin to hike the hidden lakes trail (about 21 miles). It is a very pretty trail covering some nice hills around so ( Read more... )

Well last night I went to the interest group meeting for the top-rope climbing section of the Hoofer Outing Club, and became the chair of the group (mainly since no one else wanted to do it). This means that I'm now in charge hoofer climbing section, well I better become a better climber quickly and bush-up on my administration skills.

Peace and

Will I figured it's time for an update. The semester has gone by really fast so far, with some monsters of tests here and there but in the end I'm making it through the work. Though I have come to the realization that Madison is not the right place for me to seek my PhD, not enough research into water pollution issues. Right now I'm looking into ( Read more... )

We just a crap load of snow today, over 11 inches today and most that was before 3 pm, which made for a really fun walk home that involved digging out a car that got stuck in the snow will trying to go up hill. Yeah lots of snow and I'm so missing Florida's weather right now.

Peace and Waves to you all