Summer times

Summer has been productive and fun, although I wish I felt like I did when I jumped this 15'10".  I know that doesn't sound like a lot, but for somebody who has never long jumped before it felt like a long way.  Perhaps that is what my thesis will feel like when I am finished.  When I look around I am sure that it won't compare to some of the other feats at MIT around me, but it will feel like a long way for me.  Let's just hope I land soon, I am sort of getting burnt out on the writing thing.  

Here is my plan for those of you interested.  Finish my rough draft Sept. 1st.  On to my CV, website, and application filling out for most of Sept.  October I will have my last committee meeting (hopefully, it didn't go well in June!).  Then I will be editing the thesis and writing a paper or two before December.  November is APS in San Antonio.  And then the thesis defense in Dec. or Jan. hopefully before Christmas so that it will be a nice relaxing Christmas vacation, filled with dreams of sugar plums.

What is on the docket for this week?  More of the MIT bullet study chapter, and hopefully moving on to the stuff I did in Maryland.  I have some major edits left in two of the other chapters, and I still have to write the introduction and conclusions, but that is about it.... oh yea, I have a huge digital appendix to setup.  My goal is to make it completely html driven with videos and graphs linked to a large set of parameters that I used for doing the actual experiments.  If anyone has a great idea on how to automate the whole thing I look forward to your suggestions.