söndag 14 september 2008

..and yes time passes

Now the term has really started, it's hard not to notice it really. I sent an application to a spex-group here in Lund, but their trial days were not fitting my schedule so I guess I'll skip the idea of spex and playing music for now, better concentrate on what's important.
But what's important is that I have, more or less finished my corrections of the Bachelor project (finally I moved my ass and did something useful eh?). There is only a read-through needed to look for some small errors I might have overlooked earlier and then it will be printed out in several copies and sent out to the library and some other friends. It will be a wonderful feeling to have it finished, done and with a cherry on top. Wonderful!
What more is coming up now is the Kulturnatten, where I am making a poster about "The detection of Super-earths". But it has to be in swedish, and I hadn't understood it before but swedish is really a lame language, as an astronomer at least. Every cool processes and names are just...so boring and stupid when it gets translated. Good thing you write articles and such in english at least. The design on the poster is more or less done, I will check the text sometime today and then have Daniel M. go through it as he knows more on the topic than me probably. After that it is a swedish grammar check and then it goes off into print tuesday or wednesday I am hoping. And then that part is done, on the Kulturnatten I have nothing more difficult than standing guard at doors and doing dishes. I am actually a little relieved to not have anything more important to do which needs me to prepare things and such.
And yes, we have the deadline for the proceedings book of Moletai research school. I have read up on the theory behind Eclipsing binaries, which is the work me and Thomas are writing about our results on. These are two stars encircling each other, and when we look at them, they eclipse each other in periods, which means that they move in front of each other and block each other's light. 25th is the deadline, but I think I have more or less done the fundamental part of the theory part I was set to do. Me and Thomas are discussing what we've written sometime tomorrow. I can only hope that we are close to being done so that we have lots of extra time to correct things and insert more so that we have an awesome and perfect article in the end.
Hopefully we will discuss applying for time at NOT after that, and also get the data soon so we can start working on the data. I am gonna check if I can get hold of some access to IDL, the programming language we use in our work, so that I also can analyze the data and not only Thomas.

Last night I was at a party at Lina, an ex-student that recently finished her master, with all the other of my friends and some others from the institution. It was hard not to talk all about work and so, but the night turned out nice anyway. We looked at funny videos on youtube and laughed at lots of things. I really needed that time off there, lately its all been about work work work and studies.
And about work also, I have more or less convinced myself to start as a student-ambassador. This means I get paid to go to different high schools and represent Lunds University there, tell them about how it is to study here and especially as a physics/astronomy student. It will be nice, but first things first. I have to finish everything I have to do this month before anything else. Then I can start look at this.

Well, it's Sunday and I am actually going to the university to get some work done. It sucks, but the results later will be pleasant I hope to have in your hand and be able to say "I did all this".
There's no such thing as rest in a student's life, it's just bullocks!

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