Series of exams

This week I have three exams in a row: CS 233 earlier today, MCB 300 tomorrow morning, and MCB 252 Tuesday evening. CS was straightforward as expected. After the MCB exams, I have a lot of things going on Wednesday, but after that I get to relax for a while.

Further poster development

Yesterday I continued working on my poster by applying some layout suggestions from my grad student mentor. Whitespace is much more consistent now and I think it looks much better. I sent a draft to the PI for review.

Mostly registered for next semester

Fall registration opened Monday for me, so I went ahead and added all the classes in my plan. The MCB ones all went through, of course, but the CS one is still closed to non-majors. I'll have to wait until the end of the month for that one. So far I've been able to get the seats I need - hopefully that will continue.

Preparing the rest of the plasmids

Previously I assembled, grew, and purified a batch of five plasmids. The other batch of five has been assembled and I'm now working on growing it in bacteria. There was the hiccup of some plates producing no colonies earlier this week, but I redid those yesterday and now have a few colonies for each plasmid.

Sublease confirmed

Previously I found a good deal on an apartment sublease for the summer, since I'll be spending a lot of time in town for a job. I viewed the apartment and signed the lease.

More poster progress

Last night I put together all necessary information into my poster and sent the draft to my grad student mentor for review. I got feedback today, implemented as much of it as possible, and sent the revised draft back. The layout is now much more comprehensible, but there's still a ways to go.

Yet more walking

Yesterday it was nice out and I had finished all necessary work, so I went out walking on my quest to visit all bus stops in town. This time I went east almost until the edge of the town, past some residential areas. I then doubled back and went north to visit a few stops left behind by previous trips. When I was done, there was no nearby bus to take me back to campus - it being near the end of daytime service on Sunday - and I had to walk a ways more to encounter any active route.

 The entire southeast quadrant of the map is now clear of unvisited stops. I've visited 494 stops (44.5%) so far.