Week 14

This week we are continuing to work on our papers. It's difficult because we are still working to contact employees that might be on campus in order to get data that we have collected but to which we do not have remote access. It's slow going. I should have already had a number of things turned in related to the paper, but I really wanted to rewrite and redo things for my last semester with at Phoenix College with TRAIN. We'll see. I have applied to a science conference that is in an online format, so we'll see how that goes. Specifically, I applied for an oral presentation which in and of itself feels like one huge experiment. I'd be happy for the opportunity though.
A lot of things seem to be beginning again or expanding lately. My son has more learning materials and classes available every week, and STEAM Club begins meetings again this week. I'm really excited about everything adjusting and continuing. The STEAM Club meeting sounds amazing (see picture below). I am still very unsure what testing for one of my classes will look like. I'm also wondering what my fall semester will look like after transfer. I already wasn't sure even before quarantine, but now I'm even less sure if that was possible. I'm excited for some ASU TRAIN meetings coming up. I hope that they will be able to give us some idea of what will be happening.

Mostly, I am grateful that my family is healthy and that we are all still working and able to support ourselves.

Week 13

This week I've been rereading through some of my research papers from previous semesters and sorting through our data from this semester. I'm disappointed that we were not able to collect all the the 180 days of data for our paper. Since this is the very longest that our experiment has run, I was very excited to see the results.
I've been having some issues with my computer. I'm not sure exactly what is causing them. There are a few things that help, so I am doing those periodically. I'm a little worried about it since this is a Very bad time to be having issues with a computer.
I went to an online LinkedIn seminar that was very helpful. I started LinkedIn a while ago, but I wasn't really confident about the content. The seminar really gave me some great ideas for what I want to do there. I'm not sure when I will be able to get to that.
You would think that being home so much that I would have tons of time, but that is just not the case. Instead, I am constantly distracted and have much more family things to do. I am so happy to be doing more with my family. I feel closer and more comfortable with them than ever before. I find that I am having difficultly being productive and staying motivated though. I do think that I am getting better about it.