Work, work, work

I am really busy at the moment, lots to do at uni. At the beginning of December I have to submit my “candidacy”. After the first 6 months each PhD student has to write a short plan of what he or she is proposing to do during the next 3 years. Once this candidacy is accepted I am a “proper” PhD student. During these first 6 months the supervisors will assess the skills of each PhD student and have the chance to reject the candidacy of necessary.
Additional to this I am currently planning and organising a big data recording day. As I am working on face recognition from video at the moment I need a database to test my algorithms. Therefore we were kindly made available one of the CAT buses on the weekend. Probably next Saturday we will record lots of people while entering the bus. Unfortunately we are not allowed to drive around but we can mount additional cameras in the bus and ask people to enter and leave the bus a couple of times. I am actually really looking forward to this.