Summer Woes Linger On

You know, I really wish that the McNair summer research people would leave me alone for a bit. I had forgotten about my "obligation" to present my summer research at the spring ACES thingy. I say it that way because it was not a true obligation, but more like a promise that I would participate. Of course, I had also promised to stay in school and as is I am taking some indefinite time off. I also promised myself when I first got my apartment that I would graduate by May '06, but the school jacked me on that one by not offering the classes I needed.

I've already presented the research at the summer conference and the fall national conference in Wisconsin. I don't want to present it again. I'm sure I will any way, just because I'm a good-hearted person like that. Perhaps if it was research of my own design I would feel totally different about it. But as it is, this was research in the areas of interest of my mentor. (Recall that the research is about testing for phonological awareness as a predictor of categorical learning in an effort to better understand dyslexia.) It has nothing to do whatsoever with my interests in AI, neural networks, etc.

I'm also expected to go to the President's Convocation for Academic Excellence. As an older student, I really could care less about all of this riga-moro.

Both the Convocation and the research presentation will require me to take time off from work.

EDIT: The only positive is that I have the chance of winning a little money for the presentation and it gets put on my vitae.