OK... starting to see a trend

OK, so this trend isn't a good one, basically it is during school I suck at creating clever and timely blog posts. So I am planning on working on this, of course it's great that I only have a few weeks left and than it will be summertime baby! So, I figured I could give everyone a heads up of what I've been doing and a future look into my summer plans:

Currently, I am elbow deep in complete lab assignments for my advanced GIS class and my digital cartography class (aka how to make really pretty maps, like the one below)

In this map I learned how to create a whitewash effect and create a color elevation bar (kinda cool rather that just using the layer symbology). For my advanced GIS class I am creating different spatial surface interpolation maps about max ozone levels in southern California (the neatness and professionalism of this map doesn't count for points hence it isn't my finest example...)

As for the summer I shall (for now) being staying on Corvallis, except for a week to visit my parent's and rest of my family in Ohio for the 4th of July (yeah fireworks!) and the following week I will be attending the ESRI International User Conference as one of their student helpers (cool...it like my version of Google choosing me for the opportunity). Otherwise we will just have to wait and see!