almost there...

In three more hours, I can leave school. Can't believe I didn't fall asleep all day (well, I have 2-hour long cognitive psy class to go to...so too early to say). After the sleepless night, I called my mama and talked to her about the problem I'm dealing with. She always tells me what she really thinks--it can be harsh sometimes but it all works well at the end. After talking to her, I felt much better. :-) She's awesome.

I complained bit too much about my academic situation during the meeting with my mentor. I think she feels bad for me. She told me that she will help me with the research project ideas (e.g., brainstorming, figuring out subject pool, etc). It's comforting to know that my mentor is being supportive. At least, she didn't minimize the amount of academic pressure I'm dealing with...I know some professors say, "oh, you should be able to handle that. you are a grad student."

Ran some analyses on the Ohio Scale dataset with new covariate. I think it's starting to look more interesting. Since we controlled for some extraneous variables by adding covariate, it's bit easier to interpret the results, I think. While I was running some analyses on SPSS, I realized how much I like doing this. Maybe I should make some money by running statistical analyses (which I used to do). I can develop this into a full-time career...I wonder if there's any workshop on SPSS. I want to learn more about it but I'm too lazy to read the manual. hehehe.