Finals week has begun

I went in to have my access card reset today. It turns out that somehow the card had defaulted back to its previous value, so that when you enter its ID number it shows that I belong to previous lab and not the lab I'm currently in. The person in charge was as bemused as I was.

Is it a sign? Hmm.

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In other news, given that it is Monday and I have, by 1pm, not heard back from the PI about my proposal yet, I went over (while my experiment was at the "plug it in to electricity and wait" stage) to check, just to see what on earth happened and whether or not I should be waiting for an email at 3 in the morning tonight. Er. Tomorrow morning. When I went in the PI looked mildly surprised and mentioned that yes, she got the emails from me (yes, note the plural) and inquired as to whether or not I've attached my proposal to them. I informed her, very politely, that yes I did in fact attach my proposal. I attached it to all the emails I've sent to her. She said, mildly, "Okay, let me take a look then," went to her inbox, and there the emails were, with the attachments.

She decided to take a look at them while I was right there. (To save me the pain of staying up all night anxiously waiting for an email, but mostly just to get rid of me, I suspect.) Which is, to say, she skimmed over them, noted that I have more details than I need for the literature review (which I don't really consider a fault) and had me re-organize the entire experimental methods section because my aims needs to be numbered. She didn't actually comment at all about my experimental design, approach, or limitations. After she made sure I know how to re-organize the second half of my proposal (and part of the first half too, apparently background and literature review were supposed to be together for this proposal, and the sample proposal that I followed was for another type of proposal, nevermind that we weren't really told what type of research proposals we were doing to start with), she sent me on my way (no, literally, she said "Bye" to me). She was nice enough, I suppose. And technically helpful, since she gave me advice that I will take (she IS one of the graders for the proposal, after all). Mostly, though, I'm fuming slightly, because I sent that thing to her last Wednesday. For this.

Well, at least when I turn it in tomorrow it'll be over and done with. Good riddance. (For a 2 unit class too. ...If it weren't for the fact that I thought learning how to write a proposal was so important....)