Life of a Graduate Student

I am kind of stuck with a paper titled, “Spatio-Temporal Association Rule Mining Framework for Estimating Missing Data in Sensor Networks and Analyzing Trend Evolution of Co-evolving Multidimensional Data Streams”. This is based on estimating missing value in sensor network. The approach is called MASTER. I have been reading this paper for last few days. And I am totally helpless. I have already tried with few different ways. I don’t think the topic is difficult. And the whole idea is not too complicated. But still I am helpless to handle it.

In my opinion the organization or the language of this is paper is such that you will lost after couple of paragraph. I guess this is what makes it difficult to understand. I have to build a presentation on this paper. I don’t know what to do? Usually, I have a group meeting and an individual meeting with Dr. Gruenwald every week. In the group meeting I have to present what I did in last week and what is my plan for the next week. :D I wish if I had any!!!

My TA job is going fine. I grade the first homework and still no complain. Little bit pressure is waiting for the future. I hope it will be okie. Dr. Dong is very kind to me. He tries to make most of the things done by himself. And right now, I am preparing myself and my system for the next homework.

And I should read my course work but I am not reading. I have submitted couple of home works and I read what was required to solve them. I think I should read more. I am planning to read in this week-end. I don’t know somehow I can’t manage much time for myself. However, I think everything will be fine very soon. Maybe that day does not exist still I love to dream of that day.