Master of Science..

Thursday, July 8th and Friday, July 9th happened to be the days when we (myself and Avinash) had our MS thesis defenses and boy!!!! does it feel good to have that burden off our shoulders...barring few corrections in our theses we now can safely be called Rajesh Anantharaman M.S. and Avinash Baji M.S., Biomedical Engineering...Jay is soon to be a Master of Science as he defends on the 14th of July.

Coincidentally, our proposal dates were also November 24th and November 25th..the defense dates were very appropriate in the manner in which we joined Calhoun lab during late august of 2002 when we had just come to Akron in pursuit of a Master's degree with full funding..Avinash was the first person to join my advisor, followed by me and in the next couple of months Mritunjay had also become a part of the BIOMECHANICS GANG...with no funding in sight for the fall semester and bleak chances of it in the spring semester too..we carried on with our side-projects in the lab..in the meantime, our prof, by now most of you would know his name, Dr Njus tried real hard to get us funding..We finally got it during fall of 2003..

All credit should deservedly go to our advisor, who after coming back from a horrific accident, has done everything in his abilities to see all 4 of his students defend in a space of 6 days..hats off to him..

Its party time at the Sumner household, but just for a few days as corrections, signatures and job search take first priority..

As someone rightly said, enjoy your day in the sun..we are in the process of doing the same..

Thanx everyone for wishing us for our defenses..we appreciate it..