OK, so it's thesis-writin' time for me these days. I finally finished analyzing all my data last week, in a caffeine-fueled, carpel tunnel-inducing, soul-sucking marathon in front of my computer. The one stint of 36 solid hours was a bit much, I must admit. So one may question why, in a rare moment of me-time, I am masochistic enough to once again sit down at said computer to make this blog entry. But never mind that.
So here's an example of what I have been up to. I've spent three years in grad school, and it all boils down to a graph that says frogs don't like living in the city. Yep, that's it. Well, that's not quite it. I have graphs and tables for another five species, and then two more main chapters. I'll draw it out to 60 or 80 pages. But essentially, I have figured out (along with several dozen others in the past couple of years) that frogs like living in the woods. Just asking a six-year-old the same information would have been a whole lot easier.
On the other hand, how cool is that graph? To be able to spend warm summer nights tromping around wetlands listening for frogs, and then use those data to calculate something like this, and get paid for it all the while, is simply awesome.
What can I say? Science is pretty damn sweet.
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