Nicole's Adventures in Science

A daily updates blog about my life as a graduate student in microbiology with some longer posts about microbiology topics.

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I published an article on Medium for the first time today, and I'd appreciate if you read it! Link in the comments #science #sciencefunding #sciencepolicy

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#365scienceselfies Gingerbread! Merry Christmas and happy holidays all!

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#365scienceselfies Watching the Packers vs Vikings game and eating Russian winter pie. Merry Christmas everyone.

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#365scienceselfies Going to visit the in-laws for a bit.

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#365scienceselfies Unpacked a little more and relaxed at home.

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#365scienceselfies Over the weekend, my operating system under went a hard reset. A lot of sleeping was involved. Today I started unpacking all my stuff and filling out all the change of address forms and whatnot.

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#365scienceselfies I have finally completed my move to San Francisco!

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#365scienceselfies Nicole and the tower of data backups. All my PhD data (in duplicate) on external hard drives. It's about 20TB in total. Today is my final day in my grad school lab. We submitted the student final grades, and I finished putting these babies together.

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#365scienceselfies making a final figure for a collaborator's project, backing up data, and cleaning out my desk and wet lab space.

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#365scienceselfies I am finally done grading!

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#365scienceselfies Playing Mansions of Madness again today on twitch.tv/erikaishii

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#365scienceselfies Spent the day playing the longest (about 5 hours long) Mansion of Madness scenario then went to my labs holiday party. Totally forgot to take a picture while both events were actually happening, but it was an awesome day.

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#365scienceselfies I have made it to page 10 (the final page) of my student's exams. Unfortunately, this page is one giant essay question, and most students completely covered the page and went onto the back 😑

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#365scienceselfies Board games with friends 💗 we're playing Scythe. I won 😉

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#365scienceselfies exam grading in full swing.

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#365scienceselfiesy tie dye leggings from @keelium_dyes came in the mail today too. Be sure to check out her Instagram and etsy shop! I'm also grading final exams today. Lots and lots of exams.

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#365scienceselfies my first author paper was published online this morning (link in the comments.) This is as excited as I've ever been on a Monday morning before coffee.