Showing posts with label grad school. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grad school. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Semester is Finally Over!

Just finished my class, EECS 767: Information Retrieval , for the semester last night. My partner and I presented our final project last night worth 35% of our grade. We were tasked to implement one of the tracks from the annual TREC (Text REtrieval Conference). We chose to focus on a component of the Genomics Track 2005. Some stuff related to our project:
This has kept me super busy over the past couple weeks (especially the last week). Now that I have that done, I've got to catch up on some things. The first thing I need to to is test and update the KU Motorcycle Club website with the latest design version. I've been putting that off for way too long...

Saturday, October 21, 2006

Long Week!

Ah, been so busy this week. On Sunday (10/15/06), I had to stay up pretty late working on my homework for EECS 767 - Information Retrieval that was due the next day. I didn't even get it all finished and had to work on it during my lunch at work and the whopping two hours I have between work and school on Mondays. I did finally get it done though.

At work this week, we hit the 200,000 case! They had a contest to see who could guess the closest time when we would hit the 200K threshold. Jason and I both forgot to put in our guesses. I was planning on submitting my guess right before the deadline, 9PM Central, but we ended up going to see The Departed at 8:35PM at AMC Studio 30 and I totally forgot about it. Trevor ended up winning but we don't know what the prize is yet. The next day, we were all treated to Chipotle.

Work has been super busy. I was put on two hot issues in one day in addition to delivering my part 1, 1 and 1/2 hour training on Performancesoft on Wednesday. Performancesoft is the new company we acquired a few months ago and I was put in charge of learning their product and training the rest of support on it. Quite a task, let me say. Part 2 is next Wednesday.

Now, I've got to work on a 30-45 presentation for my class. Two people are presenting per class and of course I was "randomly" choose to present on the first day we are starting. ARGH!

Funny random quote for the day:
The day's not quite gone, but the night's not quite here and somewhere, Scott Baio is plowing a woman he doesn't love.
-Peter Griffin, Family Guy