Kelly is eating good. Enuf said!
Day: March 23, 2013
Some of Kelly’s Chinese friends invited her to participate on their team in the intercollegiate statistical competition called Datafest. Kelly jumped at the chance. They are having a great time. Most of the teams tried to give themselves edgy names like Regression Session and I Regress, but Kelly’s team has, by far the best name, LoveData, picked by the Chinese girls. They asked her if it was OK and, of course, she told them it was fabulous.
She has two really big tests coming up next week. In fact, both the NCSU teams have big tests, so they are ping-ponging back and forth between studying for the tests and working on the competition. The other NCSU has all seniors and one junior. Kelly’s team only has one senior, but he is not a statistics major. He is kind of a ringer though because he has serious SAS skills, so LoveData is quite a bit of an underdog, but could surprise some people.
The other really big thing about this competition is that all the competitors get FREE FOOD all weekend long. And I thought Kelly was in it for her love of statistics!
Day 579 of 1000
Lorena flies to Monterrey to see Grandpa Lauro and Grandma Conchita. I was thinking I would finally get a chance to drive the Fiesta, but Kelly needs to practice her driving for when she goes off to her internship this summer, so I got stuck again in the drivers seat.
Christian and I are reinstalling Windows 7 on a computer for Kelly in the NCSU Undergraduate Math Lounge in SAS Hall. When we first visited SAS Hall, we kind of made fun of the lounge. It seemed like a place nobody would use, but boy were we wrong about that. Christian is here most days because it is so convenient. You have to be a math major for your student ID card to open the door.
Meanwhile, Kelly studies for tests and participates in the Datafest statistical analysis competition with her team upstairs in this same building. I hope to have some pictures of that here later today.