Arranging research rotation

In the first year of graduate school, I will "rotate" through three different labs, doing projects of a couple months to see if each lab is a good fit for me. I have reached out to two professors working in computational biology. One has space in his lab and seems interested in me rotating there, so it looks like I have my first rotation just about set.

Graduated!

This afternoon I watched the university's brief commencement livestream with family, followed by a video from the School of Molecular & Cellular Biology. Transcripts that are waiting for degrees to be awarded will be sent next month, so I assume the diploma will be sent in the mail around then too.

I didn't accomplish much the rest of the day, but I intermittently looked into some things that I'll need to handle this summer for starting grad school.

Empty to-do list

This morning I went over my last take-home exam, noticed one mistake, fixed it, and submitted. I then spent the rest of the day finishing documentation of the projects I worked on for the class I was on staff for. It was a lot of writing, but I finished everything I had planned to do. Tomorrow I just need to wake up and watch the virtual graduation ceremony.

Lots of documentation

I've spent the last couple days writing as much documentation as I can for one of the tools I created. My outline calls for six "chapters" and five shorter "appendices." Along the way I realized a small issue with the tool itself and corrected that. After writing 68 KB of prose and code, I just have one chapter and three appendices to go. I have two days to finish those and a (hopefully shorter) explanation of my part of another project.

One last week

Today began my last week as a student at UIUC. I made good progress on my last paper for an MCB class. I'll wrap that up over the next two days. There is one more take-home exam later this week that I'll have a day to complete. Other than that, I'll work on documenting all my work for the class I was on staff for. Graduation is Saturday: 6 days.

Last day of undergrad instruction

Today was the last official day of instruction for my last semester at UIUC. I didn't actually have any class meetings because my only class on Wednesdays had no lecture or activity this last week. Instead, I had some time to put together some more figures for the lab, attend a meeting for my job, and then present my lab work to the lab group.

Last deadline night

Instruction ends for the semester in two days. The students in the class I'm on staff for are wrapping up their final projects to present tomorrow in their (online) lab sections. Though I have some writing work I need to get done for a class I'm taking, I wanted to be available for one last deadline night. As expected, there were some last-minute tricky issues, but we got them sorted out. Now to hammer out another paragraph of a research paper.