SpanishAppleNerd
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And the five years before I had also been working on a project that my ex orientator decided to abruptly stop because of apparently me lol
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splifingate
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Welcome to 2026 . . . we made it!
The Break has been a welcome respite from the day-to-day busy-ness of keeping my kiddos continuously engaged, and filled with the much needed time to do all the re-organization around the house that was previously on the back-burner.
I have been, however, doing some Classwork (though on a cadence that fits my timelines).
Our 'school' officially starts Tuesday, and I'm steeling myself to be greeted with the expectation of having 32+ kiddos eager to avoid actually working on the lessons awaiting.
*merges quickly into the fast-lane*
I don’t return until late January.
But Christmas break gives us the opportunity to refresh and rest.
SpanishAppleNerd
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I defended it last Friday, and sobresaliente cum laude!
SpanishAppleNerd
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Well, among PhD candidates here in Spain (and I suppose it's the same all over) we have a saying that goes "no one knows more than you about the topic you researched". So, having that in mind, it's not difficult per se. Nerve wracking maybe if even a bit, nut not difficult. The real difficulty lays on condensing 5+ years of work in a 45 min presentation tbh, even if you present only the papers / chapters that you made
I’ve also seen scientific research presentations in high school and college. We had to compile everything into slides and posters and present within an x amount of time. I also presented research in my nasa internships like that too.
SpanishAppleNerd
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NASA internship? that's waaaaaaaaaaaaaay cooler than what I've done hahahah
👍 that’s where my first two STEM internships started with.
I plan to apply for NASA Lucy internship and NPWEE summer ! To come back to that company after doing a state job
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rm5
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Both my classes today have been moved to Zoom due to the -45 wind chill (yes, it got that cold). I haven’t been out yet, though I will in an hour. Now it’s -35
SpanishAppleNerd
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I had some students in the Industrial Design and Product Development undergraduate course that used Canvas for their class presentations. You can do real magic with that, huh? I am a bit more old school, I still prefer PowerPoint lol
rm5
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I did just go out so I could grab some lunch from the dining hall. It is BAD out there. Really quite bad. I have a rehearsal this afternoon, too. Even just 5 minutes outside and it felt like I was starting to get frostbite.
Yikes 😟 that’s awful. Here in southern Cali we don’t have negative degree temperatures. Bundle up, sir.
I use PowerPoint and keynote a lot.
SpanishAppleNerd
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With Creator Studio coming, I am thinking about ditching Office for iWork altogether. Or at the very least, PowerPoint for Keynote
Macky-Mac
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rm5
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I did! Thankfully, this campus is very small, and so everything is less than 5 minutes away.
SpanishAppleNerd
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Microsoft 365 for documents that I use for homework/school labs or if I need to create something for a windows only person. Otherwise I use iWork
I do export them to appropriate formats if needed
SpanishAppleNerd
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I may lean towards on Microsoft 365 as Apple creative studio is coming out on Wednesday.