panicking
I was just irritated before, but now I'm really panicking. I haven't done enough work for my talk to show a coherent story. I just have bits and pieces here and there. Panicking isn't helping me figure out what I need to include or how to organise it, either. The worst part is that I still can't do anything until I get my scripts to work and I can't figure out what's wrong with them.
I waited again for my script to run (after testing that it worked on a smaller subset of my records) and it's still giving me the wrong results. It's not even something that I have any idea how to fix - when I search for everything greater than 2, it gives me mostly records greater than 2, but then a handful of seemingly-randomly selected records that are less than 2 as well. WTF? I'm seriously about to cry.
Update: So apparently Filemaker indexes the records so it can search faster, but it doesn't check if they've been changed so the records that were less than 2 were presumably ones that used to be greater than 2. That still didn't fix all my problems, but Overly Verbose Student helped me figure out what was wrong with my script - nothing! I just had a few duplicated records that were counted twice. Argh! At least having to avoid crying in front of someone else made me actually breathe for a little bit, but I still have no idea what I'm going to put on my slides...
posted by Lucy @ 7:58 PM
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Oh, Lucy, I've been there too. Take deep breaths and do what you can.
I've found that most people have been in those situations. I've had to give many talks where I just don't have the results I wish I did. It's awful and stressful, but then I think about how lovely it will be when it's over soon.
Still, it's really hard and I'm sorry. Hope things all come together soon for you.
thanks, Post-doc. I think I'm already focussing too much on how happy I'll be at 1pm tomorrow (unless of course I collapse in tears during the talk itself), but it does help...
Lucy -- hope all goes well. Like post-doc said, it'll be over soon!
Hope it's over quickly and easily, lucy--I'm rooting for you!
I hope it goes okay, Lucy. Deep breaths. And try to enjoy (or at least make the most of) the extra spur to productivity that the deadline gives you!
Good luck!
we'll be thinking of you! I hope it goes okay.
I have some slides from past presentations you can use!
I hope it goes okay.
Good luck pulling it together. I'm sure you'll end up with something that is quite a bit better than you think it will be.
Shrinky, where were you yesterday when I needed the slides?
Thanks for your encouragement, everyone :)
It's over, at least. I did completely lie about a result, though (my rotation student came up afterwards and asked when I'd had time to finish an experiment and I realised I never did, I was just thinking of an unrelated one with the same cells...).
I never got a chance to show my slides to my advisor beforehand, either, and his response afterwards was a distracted and half-hearted "good job" so now I think it sucked and he's realised how slack and useless I am...
Glad to hear you're not too bloodied. Accidental lying is forgivable. Also, maybe you got a distracted response from your advisor because, well, he was distracted.
I hope it went better than you are imagining.
I have to say I was cracking myself up today imagining you presenting one of my powerpoint presentations and jsut acting as it it was exactly what you were supposed to be presenting.
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