Everything I need to know about life, I learned from writing my thesis.

Here are just a few tidbits of priceless information:

1. The brilliant ideas you have in your youth, as you begin this journey, will be slowly chiseled down to simple, standard hypotheses. (And you'll have peace with this fact.)
   
2. Fifty percent of people who volunteer for things will not follow through.
3. Find a good adviser and listen to her/him.
4. You can take two classes on it and pass the comprehensive exam... and still know nothing about statistics.

I'm still crawling my way through data collection... My one sorority came through and now I'm in talks with the soccer coach to see if I can gather data with the team. I'm praying that my adviser tells me that we'll just work with the 6 data points from the sorority group and our participants from the soccer team and that will be good enough. Yippee for small-N research design!

I will defend sometime toward the end of April to allow time for revisions so that I can really truly graduate on May 17th! Now that I've said it to the world, I guess I have to make it happen.