Student SPHere 2008-09

So its been a pretty crazy week, but its over. Monday my group for risk analysis met in the afternoon to go over our final presentation for class. For those of you not in Minnesota, we got a mild snowstorm on Monday. We got a few inches, our first real snow maker. Well I forgot how much “fun�? the bus ride home can be when it snows, just like how people forget how to drive. I hopped on a bus at the U at 4:45 and got on my transfer downtown. Downtown was a parking lot. It took our bus an hour to get to the on ramp for 35W from 4th and 3rd. Then it took the bus another hour to get to the park and ride in Bloomington. I got home a little after 7 and remembered why I need to pack a book to read. I am glad I was not driving in the mess though. I am so thankful for those bus drivers.

Tuesday was a busy day, the last day of three of my classes (phew). Our risk analysis group met before class that night, to go over our presentation one last time. We nailed it and learned a bit in the process. Wednesday was the last day for one more class. On Thursday night our epidemiology of zoonoses class got together at Old Chicago. It was a lot of fun hanging out with classmates who have become friends this semester/last few years. It was a great way to finish off the semester.

I had a goal on Friday, to finish the two take home exams I had left. I did not quite finish both on Friday, but was done Saturday morning. So this weekend has been wonderful, knowing that I don’t have anything else to do for school until late January. I am looking forward to a few less stressful weeks working on projects at work and spending more time with my wife.

Don’t forget to bundle up tomorrow…the National Weather Service is projecting wind chills of up to -25 and a high of -1 on Monday. It's mornings like that that when I don’t like standing at a bus stop, brrr.