My new MacBook Pro!

Posted 11:25 PM, September 21, 2006, by saerni

It's getting busier and busier. Today we cleared out a bunch of our boxes, but we still have a whole lot left to go. Unfortunately I missed the president's luncheon as I had completely lost track of all the events going on this week!

I got a phone call from Alex, who was out there with Guanglei, wondering if I was showing up. I felt like such a bum, but I didn't think there was any point in going since it had already started by the time he had called. I need a secretary, I'm so disorganized! Only Noah is worse...and he knows why!

Alex decided I'm the social networking person, but I don't think so. Alex and David are going on the BioMASS camping this weekend. I would love to go, if it weren't for living and sleeping in the woods with bugs. Shouldn't I be okay with bugs as a biologist?

I did take the plunge today. I bought a MacBook Pro. Shamefully, I am writing this blog entry on my PC laptop! In my own defense, that is only because I don't have all the software. I'm hoping to be able to get some of it from school, either at a reduced price through the bookstore, or for free from a lab I'm in? That would be best!

In any case, this has been a relatively uneventful couple days of furniture assembly. That picture is me with our daily roundup of boxes we drag down to the recycling bins. On the plus side, I finally have internet, so I no longer have to use the local wireless services.

Tomorrow is my meeting with Serafim Batzoglou (it was scheduled for today but cancelled). I am very excited, he is definitely one of my top choices for rotations. I definitely need some course work before being able to rotate through his lab, however I was warned not to take a course I think is vital for his rotation until I've taken a STAT116 level course. Also, I cannot take Daphne Koller's fall course since STAT116 is specifically a prereq! Aaah! So I'm back to searching for courses for the fall. I need to resolve this soon! I'm open to suggestions if anyone has them.