YAY Deadlines

Now finally I will get to work.
Someone has read my crappy proposal and realized what a bunch of mediocrity it was and now I will be working with progressive deadlines starting with this Monday.

Wohoo, now I'm working... oh wait ... I'm blogging...craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap.

Turtle Race? Grad School Race?

http://jalansutera.dagdigdug.com/2008/02/04/rabbit-vs-turtle-who-will-win-the-race/

Slow but steady?
Why is it that a small success, a turtle step closer to my goal, puts me a bit at ease at the incoming Prelim in 2 weeks?

Today was a busy day, started with lab meeting at 8am
Followed by tissue immunohistochemistry
Continue with Cell culture plating for our new imaging system collaborator.
very VERY brief lunch
Supervised one of the kids doing RNA extract and cDNA preparation.
Finally prepare the media for MY experiment (yes, none of the previous one relates to my projects)

And when I was done I said to myself. "Thats it, today I write a good amount for my prelim" Never actually set the record straight on what a good amount was, but the thing is, while trying to rewrite my Abstract... I found a commentary that it is going to be my copy paste for the introduction. It has already some nice graphs that I can modify to put it in my proposed model.

I didn't wrote much but for some reason I feel this little finding as an excuse to tell my self "I've moved forward, for today it is ok, now lets go have some dinner"
No sense of guilt is with me while I procrastinate now making this post AND getting ready to go home.
Why is that?

Starting to PANIC !!

So... prelim topic is due in a few weeks.
I have ... just talk to my advisor that I should do something about circadian rythm "biological clock" and cancer.... so I guess I can't study Sonic the hedgehog gene :'(

But the actual topic on which to base my prelim... I have nothing !!!

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let me repeat that:

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I got mail

and mail in a real life mailbox... and by mailbox I mean that hole I'm pointing at in the picture.


So not much to brag... BUT BUT... unlike those in Biology or MCMP (I forgot what that stands for) My hole is my hole... not a hole for all those with a last name starting with a C.
SO, you can not see it in the pic, and the close up pic didn't show my best side so I'm not posting it, but the hole I'm pointing at has my name and ONLY my name.

MUAHAHAHAHAHA.... next step... graduation :)

ON an artistic note:

Choosing a LAB

To join, or to drop out of Purdue... that is the question.

After 4 rotation, I'm like "mhe... sure I guess I could work on either research for my next # years" (# cause... u know :P)

So first runner up
Sophie's LAB

Pros:
Organized, has graduated 3 students all ready, 2 went post-doc, one went industry.
Connections in Berkeley, collaborations with Comparative Oncology Program in PURDUE (One that looks to cure cancer in dogs and humans :D)
Only lab with a Post-doc
Lab will be very international (China, Japan, India, France)
Has all ready told me won a grant to support me for 3 years.
Cons:
Lab safety FREAK... I can't walk in with a bottle of water, have to wear coat all time, and seems she can get pretty angry at times :(
After summer when Lesly leaves... gonna be an all guys lab :(


Second Runner up
Claudio's Lab
Pros:
New lab... according to stynky, that means I'll get push to work hard
The guy has read the Dark Knight Returns.
uh...wow running out of things... guess the fact that has new equipment should count, cooler than developing films old school.
CONS
New lab... dunno if he graduates people in time.
Lab mate kind of arrogant.
Funding seems not certain.

Third runner up
Dr Harrison's LAB
Pros:
She is SOO NICE, she reminds me of my grandmother.
and thats about it... the lab is so old, she doesn't know much whats going with her students, the only one that I saw was advancing on her project is an UBERNERD... you would be by yourself in that lab... I still need help, not that independent.
Also lost technician recently :(

Fourth:
Dr Muhammed Lab
Pros:
Coolest lab mates of my rotations (NO, they are no geeks... I'm in biology remember?) But still really crazy and nice.
Cons:
The fancy equipment they have I had to learn how to use it by calling the company...she didn't know how to work with something her lab promotes is their expertise ... kinda dissapointing.
At the beginning she had student waste their time in a useless endevour
Promise a raised to a technician which she never got. They still seem to get along, but there is tension, I feel it.

So you see... That is what I came up with for now, I'll see if something new worth mentioning comes up... so the First lab seems the best.
Any questions?
Comments?
Suggestions?