Final Stretch
By Laura Hatfield
Biostatistics
Tom and I spent Turkey Day in the wilds of South Dakota (actually, just outside Sioux Falls) with his family this year. When I wasn't working on a final project, I was having a great time. His folks are delightful: so hospitable, always up for card games, talking politics, or getting out and about.
Highlights of the trip were decorating cookies with his cousins, watching Barack and Michelle's interview with Barbara Walters, playing dominoes with Grandma, and getting in way more exercise than usual. Tom's parents keep the house pretty cold, so it pays to keep the blood flowing.
On the school front, I am delighted to report that this semester is going out with a whimper, not a bang. Thursday, I'm presenting a talk on a paper written by my academic uncle Sudipto Banerjee with my academic grandfather Alan Gelfand. It's a reasonably technical paper and uses a kind of stochastic process we never covered in class, so I've got my work cut out for me. Then one more quick HW and I'm done with probability models!
On Friday, we'll get a take-home final for Linear Models, due 1 week later. After that, I have almost a whole week to study for my Survival final-- awesome! After such an intense semester, I am incredibly grateful for an easier-than-average finals season.
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