Statistically Significant

A pretty typical week in the life of Hoxie…

I spent my week at work on my poster for the Summer Intern Poster Session coming up this week. Last Friday, I found a great website by a biology professor at Swarthmore for advice on designing scientific posters. On Monday, Hack the Planet and Boingboing picked up on it, but I was so there first! Last summer at Arizona, two of my teammates did most of the poster work at the end of the program, so I didn’t fully appreciate how much work goes into making a good poster, but I have a better idea now: a lot!

I visited my new apartment again on Tuesday, and it’s still going to be an awesome place to live next year. This will be my first real apartment! At BU, my scholarship required me to reside on campus, and dorm rooms just never felt like home to me. With my new place, though, I get to furnish and decorate my room, and mentally set up shop there for the year. I’m moving on the 15th and looking forward to it!

There was an interesting article in the New York Times this week about how Statistics is where it’s at. I didn’t learn too many new facts from the article (although the $125,000 starting salary for Ph.D. statisticians is encouraging), but it’s always nice to see that the path I’m moving down has a bright future ahead of it. (According to a slightly older Wall Street Journal article, “statistician” is the third-best job in the U.S.) And speaking of Ph.D.s in Statistics, it’s almost time for me to be finding and filling applications for grad school. Hooray!