Summer Life

So it's the 28th and nobody has kept up with Andy's idea of the posting after grad.
Well I just thought I'd share my current events:

Gadabout gave me a job, so i've been working at the front desk every day. Saw Ms. Misha when she came in for her hair appt. Thanks Mrs. K for recommending Gadabout!!

Hope you guys are having fun. Sorry I missed skate country

Miss you,
Tini

No End In Sight

Can we keep this going forever? I feel like it'd be a cool way for everyone to keep in touch and know where everyone else is at in life.

Not entirely sure if we still have to post but...

Unfortunately, the people at Prototron Circuits forgot to send me the quote for the boards, so by the time I received them to sign off on the cost, it had pushed the delivery date back too far to be ready by presentation time. Basically, the boards will be finished sometime during the day I present. While that ticks me off and depresses me in equal measure, I think I'll have more than enough to talk about staying in theoryland without showing off an actual demonstration. In other news, I've almost finished my paper to turn in in lieu of a purty stethoscope. It currently weighs in at around 10 pages, and does not include circuit schematics, board layouts, code, or pictures.

'till next time,

Alex Davis

GRADUATION

Patty needs to talk to all of you at once, so we need a senior meeting. I also need to talk to you about the ceremony.

How about we all arrive early for the Thursday presentations, at 5:00?
Ms Toews

Yep, It's Almost All Done!

So this week I have finally finished up my paper. It is nice to not have to worry about writing it anymore. (Of course there will probably be some minor revisions needed, but the hard part is over.) Not that my paper is finished, I have been focusing on creating a power-point about my project for the presentation.

Like Brian said, there is so much to be said on our 20 minute presentations, so hopefully I will have time to finish it, practice it, and refine it. The rest of my time for the week has been filled with birthday parties, practice for an upcoming 3v3 soccer tournament, and practicing bass.

Diagnosing my first patient!

So not too much has been happening this week beside working on my paper and putting the final touches on my presentation. Since that's pretty much what everyone is doing I won't bore everyone with such things.

Luckily for all of us exciting things are happening at Dr. Chua's office. There were quite a few trauma emergency patients this week, which although I'm not allowed to see them in the hospital I still get to hear everything about. On Monday Dr. Chua got called in at 2a.m. to do emergency surgery on a lady who had a brain hemorrhage, he got it out and then she started squirting blood! He got it all under control even though she coded three times and 24hours after surgery she was beginning to wake up.

We're also starting to see patients who I recognize. Most people don't just sign up for surgery, they like to think about it more tests are generally done and then they come back to further discuss their options. On Friday an 82 year old woman with a pituitary tumor came back. Her vision in her left eye is being affected because the tumor is pushing on her optical nerve, but with the vision test they also had a much more focused MRI scan.

Dr. Chua, his P.A. Lisa and Dr. Scully all looked over her scan because she has quite the tumor. Your pituitary gland is roughly the size of a pea and this tumor is the size of a strawberry. Dr. Scully turned to me and asked how I would treat her. Needless to say I was very taken aback at first, but then I just answered which shocked him. I thought she shouldn't have surgery because of her age, other health problems, and medication list. Also pituitary tumors are very slow growing, so at her age it most likely won't change her life that much. And I was right!!! I correctly diagnosed my first patient. Dr. Chua was very proud and Scully and Lisa were impressed.

All in all it was a GREAT week!

Muttering imprecations all the while.

This has been an interesting week. The spectrographic spectrometer failed to produce conclusive evidence of the Zeeman effect, so we had to use an interferometer, a very high resolution imager. We took some photos, got our pattern, and figured that this would be a piece of cake since all we have to do is put it in the computer, let it do its thing, and it'll spit out an analysis of the ring system created by the interferometer... oh. The computer's broken. So, we had to find images which can easily show the effect. And this all has to be done with analog film, so you don't know until you develop the film. Or - like I did one time - you failed to secure the new film properly, and find out that all those photos you took didn't expose onto new film...

I honestly don't want to think about it.

I have pictures. I am happy.

Thank you and good night.