Journals
This here is an attempt at keeping a journal during the summer 2004. Hope, you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed making it.
For less serious stuff and more fun, check out the fun stuff section.
May 2nd - 8th | I got acquaint with Mirela, Holger, and other people at the Beta lab. We outlined the project and its main goals, threw around some ideas and figured out the priorities. I did some reading and researching on the topic bioinformatics, and in particular RNA and what people are doing with it. |
May 9th - 15th | We dag out some of the code which we inherited from other people previously working in the area. Once we have familiarized ourselves with the code, we started to make decisions on what code we would like to keep and augment (and in what way), and what code will have to remain on the back shelf. |
May 16th - 22nd |
The fun has begun, ![]() |
May 23rd - 29th | For most Dynamic Programs backtracking is a trivial thing, however, this MIS business was taking forever! And then the horrible bug ironing process followed. |
May 30th - June 5th |
I started to re-familiarizing myself with the analyser code. We decided to go with the Baharak's approach to the problem. But be ware the algorithm as well as the implementation are pretty darn tricky! I bugged poor Baharak for a while about each little thing I didn't quite understand. ![]() ![]() |
June 6th - 12th |
I was on fire! The analyser needed to be done and more or less bug free BEFORE I left for Caltech, but all was not as easy as it seemed. ![]() |
June 13th - 19th |
Left the Beta lab and the analyser alone. People were pretty happy with the end result. ![]() ![]() |
June 20th - 26th |
If I thought that this Caltech summer school was going to be a breeze, I was mistaken! (Although of course, yours truelly didn't think that at all) It was as tough as nail! And so was I ![]() |
June 27th - July 3rd |
During this week we tried to work and do more of the never-ending assigned readings. At night we were mistaken for vampires (with pale skin and dark circles under our eyes, all from studying! not because we needed fresh blood ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
July 4th - 10th |
During the last week, we were all exhausted beyond belief, life was starting to look a bit too glim... people were falling asleep a lot during the day and many were sleep walking during the night... yet others were trying to keep up and work their butts off trying to meet the deadline for the presentations at the end of the week. But in the end we all made it. ![]() |
July 11th - 17th |
I am very greatful to Dr. Anne Condon for letting me spend a whole week with my parents after the Caltech summer school. I confess, I needed it! ![]() ![]() |
July 18th - 24th |
Getting back was nice. ![]() ![]() |
July 25th - 31st |
Finally, the cool part! I got to do web interface for our database in php ![]() |
August 1st - 7th |
If you think coming up with and implementing an interface is easy, you are wrong, my friend ![]() ![]() |
August 8th - 14th |
Finalizing everything and getting ready for the deadline. It wasn't easy. Hehehe, I know I say that a lot, but this time we were litterally camping out in Beta. ![]() |
August 15th - 21st |
Believe it or not, there were still some things to be fixed even after the submission. Although all of them were minor. So no panic or worries. It all worked out perfectly. ![]() ![]() |