Pure Nerd
65 % Nerd, 30% Geek, 17% Dork
The times, they are a-changing. It used to be that being exceptionally smart led to being unpopular, which would ultimately lead to picking up all of the traits and tendences associated with the “dork.” No-longer. Being smart isn’t as socially crippling as it once was, and even more so as you get older: eventually being a Pure Nerd will likely be replaced with the following label: Purely Successful.
That’s ok with me, I guess.
In terms of research, I’m finally getting somewhere: I’ve written my first “paper” (more like a test run for a real paper, which was reviewed in our academic writing seminar and got completely taken apart by fellow PhD students) and gave a presentation to my research group (which was followed by a very interesting discussion with lots of great ideas and input from everyone, thanks for that!).
I finally got all the Java APIs to work together (yay!) and can run experiments on various ontologies, which is quite exciting and insightful. I’m hoping to get some useful information from the results, which I can then use for my first “real” paper. I’ll let you know how it goes… đŸ™‚
I wish you all a nice and relaxing Easter break!