Proposal for U800

Mood:  rushed
Now Playing: Le Jayenge Le Jayenge (Chor Machaye Shor – Asha Bhosle and Kishore Kumar)
Topic: Thesis writing
I’ve got to get my research proposal out by tomorrow – and I am finding it intensely difficult to get words down onto paper – I know what I want to say – but trying make it sound [...]

U800 proposal

Mood:  spacey
Now Playing: Today I started loving you again (Merle Haggard)
Topic: Methodology
Well, got my proposal due next week Friday – so thought I will roughly draft my methodology section here.
Alright, let’s first start with the aims of the research and from that possibly the methods will follow as to why I did things. Well, the [...]

My U500 presentation

Mood:  a-ok
Now Playing: Remedy (The Black Crowes)
Topic: Seminars
Well had my U500 seminar presentation on last week Wednesday gone about my research. I had a lot of practice so it went pretty well. I did a brief introduction into linear programming, then my research questions, the methodology and my current activities. So, that went great.
James was [...]

Informal meeting about Lit Review

Mood:  cool
Now Playing: The Loco-motion (Little Eva)
Topic: Meetings
So, had a meeting with James this morning in the refectory – supposingly about my lit review. But we never really got to around to it properly. I knew it was bad – and I told him so – and he says he thinks that I knew where [...]

Some good news and bad news about the ASI questionnaire

Mood:  chillin’
Now Playing: Wildflowers (Dolly Parton)
Topic: Questionnaire
Well .. some good news – three of the lecturers from the UK survey wrote me back indicating they will be willing to forward a URL link to the ASI to their students. So, that was great news – however, when I contacted Donna found out that she will [...]

Cannot send off my ASI questionnaire

Mood:  blue
Now Playing: Walk, Don’t Run (The Ventures)
Topic: Questionnaire
Well, I’ve been stupid and careless!!! I should have sent out the ASI questionnaire email, everyone has their students in the exam period now – or they have stopped teaching them … uh … I feel like crying at the moment … I’m wondering if the Australian, [...]

ASI questionnaire

Mood:  not sure
Now Playing: Ah not lying (Rikki Jai ???)
Topic: Questionnaire
So, I wrote the email to the people asking about sending out the questionnaires. So, far gotten replies from 4 persons (well technically 3). One of them is away – so got an automated reply … as for the other three – they’ve already finished [...]

ASI questionnaire for British lecturers

Mood:  down
Now Playing: Yeh dosti hum nahin todenge (Sholay)
Topic: Questionnaire
Well, on a good note I’ve sent out the LP and ATI questionnaires to people in UK, US, Australia and New Zealand. Unfortunately, could not rack up too much people for New Zealand (up to 32) since there have been limited universities – I think I [...]

Literature Review was terrible!

Mood:  blue
Now Playing: Teri bindiya re (Abhimaan – Mohammed Rafi and Lata Mangeshkar)
Topic: Literature Review
Well … I did a terrible literature review – Amalia and Ritchie came on the same day I was submitting – as well as I was concentrating on my U500 presentation – and hence a horrible literature review – it was [...]

Literature Review gotta be done!

Mood:  a-ok
Now Playing: Tide is High (Atomic Kitten)
Topic: Literature Review
So, got to do my literature review – and have no clue what to write about. Got back my DTZY 840 literature review did alright in that (32/40), but that concentrated on linear programming education but now I have to do some parallel work with that [...]