New Ph.D. Advisor
I am pretty sure I'll have a new, fully working Ph.D. advisor that is medical nanotechnology-compatible in the next few weeks. It would probably happen sooner, but he's going on vacation on Thursday. I'm supposed to meet with one of his other graduate students later this week to get up to speed on one of the projects with which I may be involved.
The advent of a proper advisor in my life means I can officially switch from the M.S. program (-$43,000/yr.) to the Ph.D. program (+$2,300/mo.) and start working on some serious research stuff. I'll be finished with classes forever this December, and after that, it's smooth sailing to Dissertationville.
Meanwhile, Katy and I spent some time at the Engineering and Science library at CMU yesterday, and while she was working on research for a term paper assignment on modal logic, I was doing more research on the kidney. The research feels like the end of a jigsaw puzzle now; there are only a handful of pieces left, and they're all coming together pretty quickly. I still have to figure out how much blood can be in urine (possibly as a result of slicing gaping holes in the kidney's glomerulus and making it leak like a sieve) before the patient's situation becomes Really Bad, and then there are just a couple other little things to do before I can add this new research into the paper.
Oh, and it looks like the next Variably Recurring Trivia Night will take place on Friday, July 7. Again, we will want six teams of two people each, of which Katy and I will be one. If any of you, who do not already live here, want to spend a few days in Pittsburgh, this would be a good time to do that. We're looking forward to it!