Candid Student Reports

The following (emails) were written by members of the TIP Tapper program during the fifth day of the first week. Some elements may have been removed for various reasons, but the text that remains is in the student's own words.

 
Today, we finished our 2-day projects and made 
Power Point presentations. Other than that, not 
much really happened.  We are basically ready for 
our presentation tomorrow.


 Harding and Natalie

 
Today was PREPERATION DAY!! We worked SUPER HARD 
and learned all about presentation skills so that 
we can properly make our first presentations of 
the term. After lots of work, we're still not 
quite done, but with luck, we can do a great job 
tomorrow. Our model, Full-blown AIDS Epidemiology 
is still tough, but it's really interesting 
seeing how the model we made applies to the real 
world. The psychology lady came we're all sleepy 
and it's time to go home. More work tomorrow, 
YAHOO!


 Matt and Bev

 
Today we worked on our model, finally finishing it, 
after dealing with various technical problems.  

Our powerpoint presentation is not yet finished, 
but is still coming along quite nicely.  The 
presentation lecture was interesting...we shall 
not use clip art.  But perhaps we shall use 
Bullets.


 Kevin and Alexander

 
Today we spent all day working on our 
projects.  We made a lot of progress and will 
ready to present tomorrow (hopefully).  Well, 
Thats all!


 Eric

 
We worked on our reports all day today.  We 
finished our model and began putting our 
presentation together using PowerPoint.  Hopefully 
we will be able to have our presentation squared 
away in time for tomarrow.


 Jason

 
Today we spent the morning getting our STELLA 
model for the carbon cycle to work.  It was pretty 
simple after Bob explained how to get 6 ecosystems 
into 1 model.  We also learned how to use 
Powerpoint, and we are about halfway done with our 
slides.  We are planning on using tonight and 
tomorrow morning to finish planning the presen-
tation.


 Liz and Renee

 
After heavy experimentation, we've finally found 
a n implementation that may solve our biggest 
problem: Not having fleas die out, and not having 
the population of Europe suffocate under a 
mouldering sea of festering plague rats. It turns 
out that the rats were becoming infected at a 
rate of 50% regardless of the current level of 
infection.

Anyway... as you can guess the work is frustrating 
but satisfying.  I'm looking forward to a 
successful presentation


 Ben and Ryan