April 22, 2007

  • what a week

    Monday and Tuesday were my first days on the new job. I got a project to work on, and started cramming my head with all sorts of new knowledge so that I can actually work on it. (along with trying to wrap up those two homeworks.)

    Tuesday night through Thursday evening,  I was traveling to meet my entire dept, many of whom had not met each other before. I can't say for sure that I like my new job, but I _know_ I love my new dept. We are the friendliest bunch of stats geeks you have ever met. At no point did we have to resort to silly team building exercises to get everyone to talk - it was more a matter of shouting us down whenever a guest speaker was coming. We're the kind of people who can be together thinking about business problems all day, but at 9:30 on the way to the hotel after a huge dinner, we'll still be arguing about what precisely is the best way to measure customer erosion. The only thing that could have been better is if I'd had more than 3 hours and 7 hours sleep to run on each day.... stupid red eye flight.

    Friday I went to my first local ASA meeting - yet another group of stats geeks! (still friendly, but maybe a little more... shy? ) Met several area grad students, though in retrospect, I should probably have been fawning at the teachers more instead. ;) MCC, we are totally going to visit the place it was held at next time you visit. You will love it.

    I should be reading my extra chapter and working on my project. eep. the end, it is near. (at least I didn't have actual homeworks this weekend. that helps immensely.)