We are crab free!!
Mar. 4th, 2006 12:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
castaliaNo, the Cancer pagurus type of crabs. Dorks :P
Our three week long crab energetics module is now over with, at least the experimental phase of it. We still have stats to run and the nightmarish write-up, but the long hours of slaving in a smelly lab are over. Whee! Today was a long day of nothing but looking at the data, and although the lecturer spent most of the day telling us what we should've done and how this could've been better and why didn't we have more hand-drawn graphs and basically making us feel like morons, at the end of the day he congratulated us and said we had the best data set he'd seen in years and we'd done everything efficiently and professionally and we were the best group he'd ever taught for this particular module. I think I just blinked at him. But I can see his point - all the things he had been pointing out that could've been better were things we either just didn't know would be a complication or were simply not possible to do (such as all the out of hours work we weren't allowed to do b/c of the safety officer). He emphasized that this was supposed to be a learning experience in how difficult it is to work with live animals and plan things out, and it certainly was.
Just got home from the celebratory pub crawl. Had some lovely lattes and chocolate fudge cake at the Wetherspoon's, spent probably 2 hours at The Varsity talking to Jack about nothing but Star Wars, and all in all had a fantastic evening. I must say, I like it when we do stuff with just the Shellfish MScs; there are just too many Marine Environmental Protection people and I have to admit I'm not too fond of some of them. The Shellfish guys call them Dolphin Huggers. *g*
Still snowing off and on here and we're expected to get more on Sunday, which might nip our tentative plans to climb Snowdon in the bud. We'll have to see.
Ahh, blessed weekend. So happy you're here.
Our three week long crab energetics module is now over with, at least the experimental phase of it. We still have stats to run and the nightmarish write-up, but the long hours of slaving in a smelly lab are over. Whee! Today was a long day of nothing but looking at the data, and although the lecturer spent most of the day telling us what we should've done and how this could've been better and why didn't we have more hand-drawn graphs and basically making us feel like morons, at the end of the day he congratulated us and said we had the best data set he'd seen in years and we'd done everything efficiently and professionally and we were the best group he'd ever taught for this particular module. I think I just blinked at him. But I can see his point - all the things he had been pointing out that could've been better were things we either just didn't know would be a complication or were simply not possible to do (such as all the out of hours work we weren't allowed to do b/c of the safety officer). He emphasized that this was supposed to be a learning experience in how difficult it is to work with live animals and plan things out, and it certainly was.
Just got home from the celebratory pub crawl. Had some lovely lattes and chocolate fudge cake at the Wetherspoon's, spent probably 2 hours at The Varsity talking to Jack about nothing but Star Wars, and all in all had a fantastic evening. I must say, I like it when we do stuff with just the Shellfish MScs; there are just too many Marine Environmental Protection people and I have to admit I'm not too fond of some of them. The Shellfish guys call them Dolphin Huggers. *g*
Still snowing off and on here and we're expected to get more on Sunday, which might nip our tentative plans to climb Snowdon in the bud. We'll have to see.
Ahh, blessed weekend. So happy you're here.
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Date: 2006-03-04 12:01 pm (UTC)