Spring Break

Spring break was good. I went home to Seattle to a new family member. My sister had a little girl before I arrived so I met her when she was 5 days old. Very Exciting!!!!!
Other than that I relaxed and did no school work and just hung out with my family. I also saw a friends baby for the first time as well (I am at that age where everybody I know is having a baby or getting married, 4 wedding/engagement announcements this year and it is only March). It was good to see the family (3 of my sisters and parents) and good to relax. However the connecting flight from Houston was pretty much a Tulane spring break shuttle. A lot of whining about being hung over, request to each other for weed when they got home, the stewardess asking them to sit down four times in order to find open seats to accommodate standby passengers and threats from one that Continental was going to hear from her daddy. Then after the flight more whining because bags were not immediately forthcoming. Anyway overall good trip.

Take-home test

I found the take home test to be quite time consuming but it was similar to many take home tests I have taken. When you have the book in front of you, you tend to question your response more. If it seems easy you think that you are doing it wrong because the professor wouldn't ask you an easy question if you have the book, right? However, I thought it was a fair test and didn't throw any huge curve balls.

Teaching

I had to teach a stats class this Tuesday as per the requirement for graduate students in the class. I chose to teach the class on field studies as this is what I am interested in and have some experience in. I think the class went pretty well as I had good feedback at the end. Thanks to the class for being good participators and humouring me even when if they thought the questions were not important. It is much easier to teach when the students appear somewhat enthusiastic.