Complete the annual report

Today, my research team had a formal meeting to complete my annual report and discuss my plan for the next time.

Basically, my supervisors and adviser are happy with what I've been doing, both theoretically and practically. I have done my part concerning Euclidean Steiner tree and Mantel test in the initial project and we are waiting for a paper, written by another student. Now I am working on genetic diversity, which is widely used but, surprisingly, has NOT been defined formally by mathematical formulas - or at least, I haven't found any!!! This makes an unexpected problem to me since my principle supervisor and I believe that the co-supervisor has something readily on that topic so that we could evaluate the methods we work out. Now we have to do a more intensive literature review and practical experiment and comparison to fit my results into the world of biologists. I'm a bit worried but not disappointed though because I have learnt a lot from what I've done and I think that things will be fine. Anyway, really have to work harder next time.

Just remember that a couple of months ago, a guy asked me if I believed in what the supervisor said and smiled when I answered, truthfully and naively, "Yes" ^_^, then he told me not to be so but had to check everything myself. Now I'm just gonna follow his advice.

So, one year has been passed. Have done some but there's a lot to do. Cheers up and work hard, man!!!