New Year

I am officially a second year graduate student in the doctoral program. Though I have no real idea that I'll actually keep this up this year, I would like to try to check in once in a while and post my progress so I can think about how things are changing.

In the past year, I:

• joined a research team of varying levels of experience and expertise
• ran a program for high school students
• hit the wall in my frustration for some close working relationships
• encountered an even more heinous wall in a working relationship
• bounced back, reevaluated and recommitted to making relationship A work

• became enculturated into what it means to be part of a research group
• made friends
• did a triathlon
• wrote 99% of a paper for submission (being revised right now)
• presented two conference posters
• only somewhat made a fool of myself in front of Greeno and Phil