Good Day

Yesterday was a good day.

My department (along with all other departments in all the colleges) can nominate up to 3 graduate students to fill out an application for a University fellowship. The criteria for selection are accomplishments during graduate school only (papers, conferences, community involvement, etc.). I was nominated in December and filled out the application and I found out yesterday that I have been rewarded one of the fellowships for the fall. Yeah!

I have been collaborating with another student at Virginia Tech on my research and she sent me a great lead on how to solve one of my problems. I was up late last night solving perhaps the hardest math problem (quiet, hecklers!) (link to past post) I’ve ever solved and it will help my research tremendously. Yeah 2! Now I just have to figure out how to solve the solution.

On a weirder note, I heard on the radio that this morning, one of the freeways was really slow because 3 swans were on the road and wouldn’t get off.