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I've been traveling a lot, going to different grad school interviews so it's been tough to post. It was really cool, and I'll probably make a post about it once it's all done and I have accepted an offer somewhere. Until then, enjoy the pictures I managed to take, 1) view from the window when I was returning home, 2) the cemetery across the street from the hotel one of the schools put me up in, 3) walking around campus at one of the visits.
I'm sick but I'm trying to be productive so I'm working on planner pdf's for next year while staying in bed and being miserable.
I feel horrible that I haven't posted anything in months. I was pretty overwhelmed with applying to grad schools and working on top of my research. I'm going to try to post regularly from now on but here's a quick update on what's happened sense my last post:
I got my gre scores back, and they are good enough that I didn't retake it.
I submitted my GRFP application.
I got my computer back.
All but one of my grad school applications have been submitted.
I got invited to interview at/visit a couple of schools.
Still working on my two main research projects, and I might have some side projects coming up.
I did some *light* field work with the Ornithology lab.
I had a bit of a rough week. My computer isn't working and it's on it's way to Samsung to hopefully get fixed. In the mean time I'm using my tablet, which isn't ideal but it could be worse. For the next week I really only have to focus on my GRFP application and emailing labs about grad school, all things I can do on my tablet anyway. October has been pretty stressful, and it's going to continue into november witb grad school apps due in December.
Still waiting on my GRE scores, but I feel good about it.
Cramming for the GRE. I'm still not sure if I'll be ready to take it in 8 days, but I'm going to try.
Week in my Life: Post-Bac
I made a week in my life post last year around this time and I thought I'd do it again now that I'm a post-bac. I had set up a feedback session sense I'm writing my first paper to submit for publication, so I had to finalize my figures and write an outline of my Anthro research to distribute to the Ornithology lab I'm in so we could discuss it at the Friday meeting. It was not the average week, but most of my weeks now are not average so I just went with it.
Monday: I woke up about 7:00 and got ready for the day. I had an appointment at 9 so I grabbed breakfast on my way, went to the appointment, and got back home about 10:30. From 10:30-4 ish I worked on my research. I still had to find a SNP to run a null test on so I spent that time finding one and formatting the vcf files to run the test on. I took a short break to eat and then worked on an outline of my research till about 8. I took another break to get icecream with my boyfriend and watch a movie. I used the time during to movie to make changes to the color palette of my graphs and maps. Then I set up a test to run overnight because it takes anywhere from 2-5 hours and went to bed about 12:30.
Tuesday: I woke up 7, got dressed and headed to campus where I worked on my outline and made some edits to the plain text portions of my R notebooks I was running my tests in. I took a break to eat and walk around a bit, then I worked until 4. I had signed up for a GRFP workshop and although the first portion wasnt super helpful and I was swamped with work I went anyway (I may have sat in the back and kept working). When I got home my computer wouldn't wake up and had to do a hard reset which meant the tests I had run but the outputs weren't finalized and saved were lost. I realized it was looking like an all nighter so I breaked to eat and grab a coffee and I continued to work on wrapping up my tests and writing the outline.
Wednesday: At about 2 I got to a point where I couldn't continue until all my R notebooks were done and saved which took about 4 hours for one and 3 for the other so I went to bed. I woke up at 5 to one notebook done but I had to make a few adjustments before I switched to the next one, then I took a shower and got ready to head to campus. I got there at about 9, and grabbed breakfast while I waited for the notebook to finish up. I was able to finish it up and work on my fighres and outline until the meeting with my anthro research advisor at 1. The meeting was over at 1:45 and I went back to working on my outline. I went home about 4 so I could eat and keep working. I ended up emailing my outline and R notebooks at about 6:30. I took a shower and relaxed a bit before watching American Horror Story at 8 and going to bed right after at 9.
Thursday: I had to work 5am-2pm, it was uneventful and I was still tired so I just relaxed and played Sims when I got home. I ended up going to bed about at 8.
Friday: I woke up but stayed in bed till about 8, got ready and got to campus at about 10. I looked over my outline and made notes of things to clarify and talking points. While I was looking over my R notebooks I made an observation I hadn't noticed that drastically changes my arguments made in the outline. It was too late to write and send out a revision so I just went to lunch instead. My meeting in the other lab that I was presenting my work was from 3-5. I didn't think it went great but people had good things to say along with some notes to make my paper better so I'll count it as a success. Per usual, we went out for beers after, I hung out till about 7 then went home to relax before going to bed at 10.
Saturday: I worked 5-2 again, was still tired so I spent the rest of the day playing Sims and watching netflix. I went to bed at about 9.
Sunday: I was supposed to work but I really wasn't feeling it so I called in and went back to sleep. I got out of bed at 9 and spent the morning at Starbucks planning out my GRE cram week and then spent the day studying for the GRE and preparing for the week. I went to bed about 9.
It was a tiring week, but most weeks are. I honestly love doing research, I just wish I didn't have to also work a part time job. Hopefully it means I'll appreciate grad school more once I get there.
It's been a while sense my last post, I've just been super busy! I'm working on finishing up and writing my anthro lab research, writing my GRFP application, emailing labs about grad school opportunities, and studying for the GRE.
...Also, I have to figure out how to make an R Shiny app, hopefully before I submit my anthro paper for publication.
I got a new tablet a month ago so I can use less paper. The hardest part is not buying new stationary, but hopefully organizational apps will fill that void.
I've spent the summer working on expanding my thesis and it's going pretty well. I'm also working on a project in an Ornithology lab. It's been about a month now and I still don't have the greatest confidence in how I'm doing with that project, but I had a rough time second guessing my abilities when I started my thesis in the Anthro lab and all the evidence has pointed to me doing pretty damn well.
Bonus stress: I'm behind on my GRE studying, grad school feeler emails, and NSF GRFP application.
I haven't posted in a while, so I thought I'd update you guys on what's been going on with me.
I didn't get the post bac. fellowship I was hoping for while I apply and prepare for grad school this year. So now I still have to do all of the grad school and funding applications and stuff, find a way to still do research this year, and get a job. I'm still working on expanding my thesis, so I have a research project through the summer. My research advisor is really helpful and mentoring me in the whole grad school thing, so I have help with that. He did suggest I try to get experience in a different lab so I can learn different things, work with new people, and have a more well rounded application. I'm talking to a lab, but nothing's official yet.
The biggest issue I'm having is getting a job. When picking my major I didn't even think about what you could do with a baccalaur degree because I was never planning on stopping there. Also, my particular type of Anthro isn't really what people think of when you say Anthropology. So I've been looking more at bio jobs, but I think that people who have never worked with an evolutionary anthropologist don't understand what it is and disregard my application because I don't have a bio degree. So I haven't had any luck in finding a job and I'm really starting to worry that I'm going to have to go back to working retail and being miserable.
So that's what I've been working on these past few weeks, I've just been too stressed out to remember to take pictures.
Working at Starbucks. I'm trying to make a habit of reading a journal every day while I drink my coffee. A friend of mine does it and I thought it was nuts but it's actually a really nice way to start the day and get my brain warmed up.
I finally remembered to take a picture: I was in campus for my research meeting so I hung out in the library and finished my spreadsheet of the frequencies of the observed haplotypes of 10 known ALDH2 SNPs in my datasets.
I have a lot to do this week so hopefully I'll have a lot to share with you guys.
I'm done with my B.A. in Evolutionary Anthropology and I graduated summa cum laude with my Anthro Honors thesis!
I'm taking a year off before grad school so I don't get burnt out. I don't really know what I'll be doing this year, but I'll have plenty of content still. We've decided to expand on my thesis and produce something that can be submitted for publication. I'll be starting the process of applying for grad schools, and studying for the GRE. I'll also be studying and taking extra classes so I don't get rusty.
I don't feel super duper excited about graduating cause it's not really over and I genuinely love school. However, I'm proud of what I accomplished and I am excited that I can move on to a more research intensive stage of academia.
It's been a while since I last posted. I finished my thesis and 3 of my classes are completely done. I just have one more paper for my personal genomics class due tomorrow and I'll be completely done with undergrad! I have my graduation ceremony on Saturday. (I don't really feel like going but I told my mom I was thinking about it like a year ago and she's now making a big deal about it so I kind of have to.) I'm still going to be working with my advisor on expanding my research to submit for publication and working on grad school apps so it's not like much is changing.
I'm so overwhelmed. There's only 3 weeks (+ finals) left in the semester.
I'm almost done with my presentation on Ethics of Human Germ-line Editing. I worked on it for two hours but 30 minutes of that was just me trying to find the right pictures for my backgrounds... it shouldn't be so hard to find pictures of DNA with the correct helical structure.
I've finished all the available readings for the rest of the semester. Now I just have to focus on my research and the big projects for a couple of classes.
Working on my personal genomics homework at Starbucks. I had it almost all done but then my teacher made some suggestions and I had to redo almost the whole thing. But at least now I have a ton of practice making and analyzing phylogenetic trees.