got my first midterm tonight (analysis, yuck ><). i've been studying steadily the entire week, but i feel like once i sit down and get handed the exam, everything will be wiped from my brain and i'll be giving the exam a blank stare. we only get an hour for 4-5 questions (with multiple parts). presumably, it's one question from each chapter. the only chapter i'm not so comfortable with is the last one we just covered. i feel like i haven't let it sink in enough... and epsilons and deltas are driving me crazy.
on monday, i met with prof percus for the first time. it was absolutely nerve-racking. it's my fault - i didn't do enough research in the field to make it a really productive meeting. he pretty much talked about the field in general and how i could go about exploring it, and explained what he's interested in. i felt like i knew nothing. i was on the fringes of understanding what he was explaining -- like i had enough knowledge (which is really limited) to understand (concepts like sigmas and errors, clinical trials, etc). we settled on something to do with paradoxes (check out simpson's paradox). i'm hoping that more i look into the area, i'll happen upon something i can turn into a thesis. i'm not afraid of breaking some new ground, but that's not my ultimate goal. i told pauline that i was trying to put myself on his wavelength rather than set my goals on something. so we'll see how that turns out... i need to check out an armload of books about medical statistics now...
no wait, i need to study. haha... laterz
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