Supervision meeting

Mood:  bright
Now Playing: Wild Child (Enya)
Topic: Meetings
Yesterday afternoon I had my supervision meeting, and strangely enough all three of them were there. Now that was surprising since I only expected Doug and James.
Anyway, we got to talking about how to developed the mathematical tasks to see what occurs when using the black-box and white-box software. [...]

Probation Proposal

Mood:  a-ok
Now Playing: Poor Shirley (Christopher Cross)
Topic: Methodology
Well, had a meeting with Doug yesterday about my probation report and it went surprisingly much better than I expected. But he did say my methodology was a bit thin. I need to improve that and decide my sample size etc.
Well what I did say was that I [...]

Meeting with Mick

Mood:  a-ok
Now Playing: I Don’t Want to Wait (Paula Cole)
Topic: Interviews
So, went and meet Mick Bromilow yesterday to discuss linear programming and software. I thought perhaps he knew about linear programming in the UK and the OU, but as it turns out he is not in the linear programming research area – so, not able [...]

Meeting with James

Mood:  down
Now Playing: Ain’t That a Shame (Fats Domino)
Topic: Meetings
I met up with James the week before Friday (10th Feb) and was supposed to write up some of the stuff he told me here or either in meeting notes and I didn’t get around to it – and I felt bad I hadn’t done it [...]

Met with James in the corridor

Mood:  hug me
Now Playing: I’m a Believer (The Monkees)
Topic: Meetings
So, just met James in the corridor and we were discussing the BSRLM conference and I told him although it was ok, I didn’t think it was that useful. He suggested that sometime in future I should make a trip down to Bristol, since they are [...]

PhD Skills

Mood:  a-ok
Now Playing: Take Me Home, Country Roads (John Denver)
Topic: PhD Skills
Well had my meeting with Doug yesterday on mostly the PhD skills. James couldn’t make it since he had a problem with his eyes, and John didn’t turn up.
The PhD skills are a bit tedious to go through, but Doug and I did well [...]

Meeting with John about data analysis

Mood:  a-ok
Now Playing: Surfin’ USA (The Beach Boys)
Topic: Data Analysis
So, had my meeting with John this afternoon and James came along to the meeting as well. Well, I discussed with John my idea of converting the disciplines into soft and hard, pure and applied, life and non-life. He indicated that they were doing something similar [...]

Third Party Monitoring

Mood:  chatty
Now Playing: Georgy Girl (The Seekers)
Topic: Third Party Monitoring
So, had my third party monitoring just now with Mary. That went well, I had no complaints, so we spent some time talking about MK, UK, London and Trinidad. Plus, its her job to hear me speak about those things to see if there is any [...]

Computational and Learning Questionnaire

Mood:  chillin’
Now Playing: Karma Chameleon (Culture Club)
Topic: Questionnaire
So, had an informal meeting yesterday with Doug and James … that went well … James and I were updating Doug on the position of my research … and its great to get Doug’s input … at first I was wondering if he would have added anything … [...]

Supervisory meeting

Mood:  lazy
Now Playing: song from Mohabbatein
Topic: LP Software
I had my supervisory meeting on Monday, it seems as if my research might go somewhere yet … we are thinking about correlating lecturer’s view of software with that of the approaches to study view of students … seems like fun … but got to unpack my computational [...]