Hope for the summer project in the fall

It's been 3 years since I moved from my PhD program's town to my first job's town. Three years as of today. Kind of cool.

So for the summer project, we made it through coding 20% of the data, partly because of optimism, partly because of poor reliability, partly because of group dynamics. I really want to do the other 80% at some point. That point may come sooner than expected. My university is interested in parlaying its success with summer undergraduate research into undergrad research during the school year. Faculty members get professional development money and the student gets a 1 hour scholarship for working through the semester. I'm going to see if my student will continue through December, and another faculty member (the one that I seem to be working well with) may do the same. If I unitize the data, the four of us might have the data coded by December. Yes, there is hope after all!