Visitors

To date, five visitors have enjoyed the hospitality of the Hunting Lodge. They have come from places like Remington, IN, Princeville, IL, Bluffton, IN, and Kansas City, MO. Considering this is our eighth day of class, I anticipate having 50 visitors over this upcoming semester (which runs 80 days). Please get in touch with me now to confirm your reservations.

Seriously, I really appreciate having friends like Eric & Bob stop by as they travel west (I don’t know many ppl west of here that will be traveling east) or Vince who flew in for the weekend or Alan & Mark who are doing business in the area. It is amazing to think of all the ppl in our fellowship and the bond of brotherhood we share. It is truly a blessing.

Differences in Experimental Design

It is late at night when these funny questions popup. You try to shrug them off, but it is no use.

Well, I was thinking about the example used in STAT class and wondered what is the importance of blocking for experimental design? Personally, I was thinking of its great importance and that each experiment should incorporate some level of blocking to minimize the impact of variables and understand relationships within the data.

I was also thinking of how nice the bed feels at the end of a long day. Just to sink into the mattress and have the cool sheets (it is still summer and not yet time to pull out the flannels) surround your body. (If this paragraph does not make sense, read it at 10 past midnight)

The KSYG (sorry to all the KSU ACYGers, I just had to shorten it) is gearing up for a semester of hard academic work and a packed social schedule (not as packed as the PYG’s, but at least we will survive the semester). Prayer meeting tonight (yesterday) was attended by 70% of the group (less couples) (impressive by Indiana standards).

This week looks to be filled with many visitors; like John Leman and Alan Banwert. I’ll keep you posted.


As promised, posted is the pic of my cute little plant. Please leave your comments regarding the plant and your thoughts on blocking and experimental design!

First Week

To all my faithful readers out there (Hi Mom), you already know the big change that took place this summer.

To all the random people,

I have just started graduate school at KSU (Kansas State University). Today, I finished my first week of classes. Lets just say last night was rough but everything else has been fine.

I didn't expect so much rain--so much for chalking campus on Wednesday--it makes the heat that much worse. (Of course so does working in the greenhouse)

I have one cute little plant which I am nursing back to health, several big ugly plants that I am keeping alive, and some seedings that are just ok. I might just post a pic of the neat little seeding. It has had a hard life. Not that it can blame it on me, becuase without me it never would have been planted.

Late Night

How appropriate, my first late-night on-campus is the launching of my blog :)

I have just two things to say:

Statistics Stink

PCR is cool

(This will not be the last time for either statements)

This is a picture of our PCR machine. I have not yet used it but it is a huge step up from the one I had access to at PU. I can run four separate plates! Now I just need a gradient thermal cycler.

**EDIT:please ignore the following**