Preparing for assignment relaunch

The major assignment of the class I'm on staff for will be released early next week. It would be good if students got the development environment fully set up in advance, so I held extra office hours today. A couple students attended and we got them set up as much as possible. During downtime, I worked on tweaking one infrastructure program that supports the assignment.

Got an interview

Today I received an email from the University of Tennessee Knoxville inviting me to visit and interview there. The trip will also involve a visit to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, with which the Genome Science & Technology program is affiliated. I'm very excited about the trip and program!

Last application finished

Today I finally finished my statement of purpose for Knoxville and compiled all my application materials. I will probably receive instructions tomorrow on how to submit everything into their system how they like.

Interestingly, I didn't hear anything from Boulder. They might have sent their interview decisions via physical mail rather than email. My application status in their system still says "submitted"; no news could be good news.

Possible decision tomorrow

With Boulder's committee meeting last Friday, it's likely that they'll send their decisions this week, possibly tomorrow. In the meantime, I made a little progress on my last application's last document, which I should finish tomorrow.

App data issue

I just checked on my app this evening and noticed that all the cached information on trips' stop times was gone. This normally happens whenever the bus company publishes a data update, but I checked and that hadn't happened recently. Trying to look at those trips failed; my server thought it already had the information on them but the relevant data table was empty. Strangely, only that table was empty. (This is somewhat fortunate, since it would be much more difficult to clean up if two certain tables were lost.) I cleared the server's notes of what trips' data was downloaded and it's being refetched now. This is strange and somewhat concerning, but I will have to wait to investigate further.

The month for grad school interview decisions

At least two of the graduate schools to which I have already applied will release interview decisions in January. Boulder sent me an email with a specific admissions committee date (January 10!); Stanford said interview offers will go out starting the week of January 6 until the end of the month. I suspect that in eight days I'll have my first result.