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.

Online research symposium ongoing

Today was the opening of the entirely online Undergraduate Research Symposium. My video is available for viewing and people can ask questions in the forum. I answered one this afternoon. It's nice being able to compose a response rather than needing to answer verbally on the spot.

Learning to visualize proteins

My grad student suggested I start experimenting with tools for protein structure visualization. Protein structure is a Very Big Deal in biology, so I should definitely get comfortable manipulating it. Today I spent some time tinkering with PyMOL on our protein of interest.

Documenting for handoff

Since I'll be graduating this semester, it's important that my fellow course staff understand the systems I worked on so they can continue development and maintenance. Over the summer I contributed some complicated features to a project. This semester I periodically met with the project's maintainer to explain and clarify the code. We finished going over the last of it today.