Take THAT, week!

I've either become jaded or really good at what I do here. This week has been busy, and stressful, but not the epic endurance test that any single one of these factors caused me in my first and second year here. The run down-

Monday and Tuesday, clear schedule to work on Midterm that turned out to be really hard. Minimal guilt associated with not doing experiments, this class doesn't take up much time otherwise.

Wednesday, present 1 hour-long lab meeting for Dr. Rockstar's lab. The process of getting ready to talk for an hour about the things I need help with is never fun, but didn't require multiple practice runs or anything like this has in the past. In fact, I was reading a paper for my midterm until I went to set up the projector. Dr. Boss thinks I am meeting expectations. Submit midterm ~7pm.

Thursday- go to class, what, there were TWO papers to read? Skimmed these during lab meeting and was still the most 'participatory' student. Check!

Friday, last push! I am leading the HHMI students in a discussion of Reserch Integrity. I am relying on the fact that the case study was really cool to give me some time to think about how to assess students in discussion. We have TWO hours, people! I didn't even decide what I was going to wear the night before (although jeans and a hoodie wouldn't have taken long to arrive at), I would have thought I'd be more nervous. I am a little worried about letting down the faculty who provided me these students, but I don't know what other kind of prep to do in the mean time.

Just a few more hours until this week is conquered!