• December 5
  
• December 4
  
• December 3
  
• December 2
  
• December 1
  
• November 30
  
• November 29
  

December 5, 2004

December 4, 2004

       I took a break from Mission activities.  Next week, I plan to revise my web site since I have not had a chance to do so for the past few weeks. 
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December 3, 2004

       Today was our last class of Mission.  We had a discussion of our first semester experiences, MIT history, and how our perspectives of this class have changed and will change over time.  We also completed class evaluation forms and received long-sleeved shirts with our class name on them.  Over the past three months, I have made many connections with my peers, some of which I suspect will last for a long time.
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December 2, 2004 - Presentation Day

• Presentation dress rehearsal from 8 to 10 this morning.  Due to my lack of sleep lately, I slept throught the first few minutes of this session.  Fortunately, I am the last person to present and did not hold back my peers from starting the presentation.  Some of them humerously thought that I had died! 
  
• From 10 to 6, I practiced my 15-minute talk to myself and whoever else was willing to listen and give me feedback.
• I presented our entire monitoring system proposal in front of the review panel, peers, professors, and other interested individuals.  The presenation was webcast live and has been archived here.  I spoke from the 43-minute mark in the file to about the 56-minute mark.   Initially, the review panel made me nervous and I stumbled over the first few lines, but after that I was more relaxed and was able to present our information clearly. 
  

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December 1, 2004

• From midnight to 9 A.M., Lisa, Allison, and I finished the monitoring system web site.  I worked on the buoy, fish/fishing, seismic, soil, and atmospheric write-ups.  After one of the three of us would finish a section, the other two would proofread it and then the final revised version was sent to our webmaster Bryan, who would add it to the section web site.  Some of these areas listed above were not mine, but we needed to get these covered in our proposal, so I had to do the work of two to three people tonight.
  
• I slept for a few hours back in my dorm before coming back slightly after lunch to work on the finishing touches to the monitoring section's presentation. 
  
• At 3:00, we had our last class meet before the presentation, and during this time I made sure that the web site and presentations were coming along with minimal difficulties and confusion on what individuals' roles were.  We assigned proofreaders for our web site and that worked out well.
• At 7:00, we had a practice run through our presentation, with a question and answer session at the end.  Many people did not show, but fortunately all of the presenters finally did.  The UTFs bought everyone pizza, which was a pleasant surprise.  Our alumni mentor Jessica also came to our presentation and provided me with feedback.  We scheduled a dress rehearsal for tomorrow at 8 A.M.

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November 30, 2004

• From 4:30 to midnight, I was in the Terrascope room writing proposals for various areas of our monitoring system, which I have a short list of in my December 1 entry.  Only four out of the eight of us came to the room to work tonight, which was disappointing, despite our intense efforts to get them motivated (i.e. phone calls, going to their rooms).

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November 29, 2004

• For most of 4:00 P.M. to around 1 A.M., I was in the Terrascope room doing final research for my areas (soils, buoys, town impacts).  I also worked on the monitoring section's slide show, which I presented to our professor and some UTFs this evening, who gave us feedback on presentation style and format.   We will incorporate many of their suggestions into our presentation with the little time that we have remaining.  After the practice run, Lisa from the monitoring group revised our slide show.