May 14, 2018
When you did better than you thought you would for the semester but it’s still not great:
seen from Spain
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When you did better than you thought you would for the semester but it’s still not great:
I genuinely just want to turn tail and run from “academia.” I just can’t stomach it anymore.
Current GradSchool to-do list:
Calcium Assays to establish concentration-response curves for my knock down cells (X2 different knock downs and X1 for the sham knock down)
Create the graphs to compare these concentration response curves to the wild-type and do same for CRISPR knock out cells
Update my lab book -- I currently have an electronic one on the go because it has been too busy to write it down on hard copy (this takes me longer than it should but I like the hard copy to be so organized that sometimes I find it hard to put pen-to-page
Study Study Study -- candidacy in two weeks!!!! EEEEK
Print my study guides that I have created for candidacy (there are 5 of about 200 pages each.... oops)
Set up practice exams - I have one scheduled for Friday
Analyze my proteomics data... I have started but I’m still not sure what it all means. I meet with the PI that is helping me with these experiments tomorrow so hopefully he can give me some tips
Plan next proteomics experiments
Make plan for immunohistochemistry experiments starting with stain validation
When you reach that point of second-guessing everything about the assignment instructions despite nearly being done with it, it’s time to stop for the night.
Graduate Struggles 4/?
I’ve written so many research/analysis essays these past two weeks I don’t even remember what the one I’m supposed to be writing now is even about.
Graduate Struggles 3/?
There comes a point where you can no longer stand the stuffy, nitpicky pretentiousness of your required readings and sources and just submit what you have and pray it’ll be enough.
It almost makes the woe-is-me gender commentaries I was so annoyed by last night more bearable. Still reaching, yet at least I’ll never be required to cite it and I can block it from my life.
Ni he entrado a estudiar y ya estoy pariendo piñas por la tesis
Next stop: Nottingham.
I whisper to myself as I keep procrastinating and not writing the essay for my student funding