My poster went great!!!!

I got an honorable mention at the conference.  That means I was in the top three and just barely missed beating ALL of the PhDs at there posters. hahaha.  The judges really liked my title and innovative lay out.  Hopefully the next poster will be received with equal enthusiasm.  That is, if my supervisor ever approves of it!!! grrrr... I want to get it printed already!

List of Schools

Here's my narrowed down list.  I was down to 31, but then I found a few more that I had to add on. Alabama A & M University

Boston University

California Institute of Technology

Case Western University

City University of New York, The Graduate Center

College of William and Mary

Colorado School of Mines

Colorado State University

Florida International University

Georgia Institute of Technology

Harvard University Massachusettes Institute of Technology

McMaster University

Montana State University - Bozeman

North Carolina State University

Old Dominion University Rice University

Southern Illinois University Carbondale Stanford University

Stevens Institute of Technology

Twente University

University of Alabama at Birmingham University of Arizona

University of British Columbia University of California Berkely

University of Central Florida

University of Chicago University of Colorado at Boulder

University of Connecticut

Unviersity of Maine

University of Manitoba University of Maryland - College Park

University of Michigan

Unviersity of Nevada Las Vegas

University of Nevada, Reno

Unviersity of New Mexico University of Rochester

University of St Andrews

University of Virginia

One down. One to go

I've officially sent off my first poster to the printer!!! woo!  I've started my second poster, and I am on track for studying for the GRE.  However, I am going to have to work a little harder than planned on the GRE today and Sunday bc Domi is coming over tomorrow!  It should be really fun. We're not that close, but we always have a good time together.  I've convinced him to go to a Dutch pancake restaurant.  MmmmMmmmm.

Also, I found Mac 'n Cheese!  It's "Magic-a-Roni."  It's not great, but it does the job.  It was in the Mexican food aisle. lol.  They have no idea what they're doing.  And I ate "Texas-flavor" pizza the other day.  It was pepperoni.  And it was Texas bc it was big. lol. 

Part way there.

My poster that needs to be done on Thursday is almost done.  yay!!!  I have one typo, two mistakes, and one "making it look pretty" thing to fix.  It does look quite good.  I also wrote and turned in my abstract for my second poster (which will probably have very similar graphs on it as the first).  I had a major problem yesterday while aligning my setup, but I fixed it.  I did all the calculations.  So I should be able to just put almost everything in my set up, align two mirrors using my calculations, and then put the rest of the stuff in at the calculated places.  I really, really hope this works.  This is by far the most precise way to do it.  Hopefully I didn't make a calculation error.  It would suck trying to find that.

In other news, my room smells like roses courtesy of Alex.  They're really pretty.  It's starting to get cold here which is sad, but I'm still holding out in my light jacket and flip flops.  My office mate wears two jackets and has a space heater. haha.  I think I'm going to make bacon wrapped scallops tonight.  Hopefully they turn out well and Alex likes them... maybe we should pick up a frozen pizza just in case. lol.

Just so you know.  This wasn't the real test.  It was a practice test.  Don't worry.  I still can theoretically get into college.

I Failed the Test

Yes, you heard right, I got about a 20% on the test.  Since the test is scaled that means I got about a 40% which isn't much better.  So, I've been working my tail off studying and I have a new plan that will hopefully help things moe efficiently.

The anniversary yesterday was nice.  Alex bought me roses and some pretty silver earrings that match the necklace he got me for my birthday.  I ended up getting him a polo, a recipe book and a ton of different kinds of black licorice.  You think there's only one kind bc you're in the states, but nooooooo.  There are at least six different kinds I know of and I hate black licorice.  Also, red licorice is super hard to find :(  But I did finally find a place that sells oreos and resees.  Also, the chinese stores sell baking soda and crisco. How funny!  Anyway, Alex and I planned to go to bowling, the to dinner, then do a movie.  But the practice test ran a little late, so we went to dinenr first.  Then since we both didn't sleep very well the night before and had tiring days, we were too tired to go to a movie.  So, we played a couple of games of pool and a bar near the resturaunt we went to.

For the first time since starting this blog, I am on my lap top with my camera handy.  Theoretically I could download images, but the internet is acting too much.  So, no pictures yet.  Also I brought my camera to our anniversary, but I forgot to take pictures! ugh!  We were even dressed up.  Oh well.  I'll have to take more later. :)

Planning for the future without planning for the present

Yep.  You read that right.  I am way ahead of myself right now.  I have things done for months ahead.  I have my trips in November and December planned but not the one happening in a week and a half or in two weeks.  I have just bought Alex's xmas present, but I haven't bought his 3month anniversary present for tomorrow.  Well, looks like I'm either working backwards or I'm not really planning on living life until after the GRE.  Since I don't really have a life because of the GRE, that's kind of true. huh......