Let's summarize the past month in a PowerPoint-style bulleted list:

• Being busy can be both rewarding and frustrating.
  1. Sometimes it is rewarding
  2. Sometimes it is frustrating
  3. Usually it is some combination of the two

Phew I would *not* have been able to pull that off without PowerPoint. Actually I don't really care about PowerPoint, unlike these people...

Why is any of this relevant? Well... It's that time of summer at Colgate. It's hot, humid and it's starting to empty out. The PowerPoint thing was just a loose association (I should make a bulleted list > Bulleted lists are on PowerPoint slides a lot > I should do a web search for people who hate PowerPoint).

The Research

If you think loose associations are a bad sign, wait until you hear this: I've been getting paid these past seven weeks to make them It's this wonderful thing called Research. Two years ago I did some interesting stuff on Visual Features of Graphs, combining some interesting Computer Science with Cognitive Psychology.

This year is a little more serious. I'm working on a novel way to implement some spatial data structures. In case you didn't realise those words work together (i.e. you are not a Computer Science person): click the link. I've been doing this under the supervision of Professor Ohsumi, who has been a great help so far. I feel very... up to speed... on C++ if I do say so myself