That’s right. I got a car today. It’s a 2007 Subaru Outback 2.5i Limited or some nonsense like that. It was a great deal at just over 50,000 miles. It even still has that new car smell. It handles quite nicely, especially compared to the ‘94 Ford Escort Wagon that I’d been driving up until it died last October or November.
In other news, I’ve spent two more days (the past two fridays) up in Denver doing some neuroscience research. Two fridays ago I helped finish up a paper, on which I now have my name (I’ll post links when I find the final copy). Last friday, I started working on my independent study project, beginning with a literature search of classification-based methods of epileptic seizure prediction from EEG data. I expect I’ll be back in Denver Thursday (and probably also Friday) continuing to read the articles I’ve found and possibly beginning the code base that will become my classifier.
As far as the less exciting aspects of my academic career are concerned, I have passed the Ph. D. Qualifying exams (surprise, surprise) and I have successfully finished two semesters of classes (boring, boring classes).