It’s all sort of come to a head today. I have a rough draft due in transportation and land use at 4.
In economic development, I had a prelude to a paper due in early march. List your sources and describe them, write a page or so about the notion of your 10-15 page (I think) paper. I’ve found some sources, and haven’t read them. Professor Schuh is pretty cool, and has said that he’s okay giving me an incomplete. Professor Krizek, my instructor for Transportation & Land Use, when I told him I was having surgery said “Well, make sure you talk to your classmates to get the notes for any days you miss.” But I digress.
I’ve made a script to convert real-html to joke-html for my research assistantship. It needs a couple of corners finished before I use it to go on a cut & paste spree. That’s all I’ve done for that since my surgery. I turned in a half-assed paper for creating good work at the midsemester. I turned in a 2 hour abstract for t&lu (the one on which he suggested I use a map).
Of my courses, gymnastics doesn’t really count as a cutting target because a) it’s only one unit, b) it keeps me sane, c) all I have to do for the rest of the semester is show up and I get my grade, and d) it wakes me up for cgw. Economic development I can’t drop the first half of, and it fulfills requirements for my concentration. Creating good work also fulfills the same requirements. Multivariate Techniques is so easy and trivial that it scarcely counts. Plus, it’s useful. Transportation and Land Use gives me units, but does not otherwise advance me towards a degree, nor has it offered me much, pedogogically, outside of lab. Furthermore, even without t&lu, and not counting gymnastics, I’ll finish up this semester significantly more than halfway through the credits I need to graduate.
I did find the data for the paper. I was initially told I could find it here, but it appears that I’d have to go to pittsburgh to find it (maybe) and devote some of my vacation time to getting it, so that I could do the analysis and write the paper in the following week and a half, when I’ll also be working on my cgw and ed papers. In short, screw that.
Previously the thought of working for the physical infrastructure team made me think that keeping t&lu might be relevant, but if it is, then I really don’t want to work for PIT.
My sole misgiving on this is the lab, and my 11th hour abandonment of my group (including the inestimable