First off... Happy Thanksgiving! Now... exercise and a good diet are probably the most important factors in health, but...

It's a wonder that only about 55 and 57 years ago DNA/RNA and proteins, as we know them now, were brand new discoveries. In half a century, we've come from knowing nothing about these building blocks of life to sequencing and ( Read more... )

Ahahaha, I guess I should update since things are much better now. I completely changed my idea for the oral, so now I have something that's tractable and makes sense. This means, instead of floundering confusedly, I can actually get to work. Although, solving the problem of getting myself to work on it is still there, but that problem is far, far ( Read more... )

( Ho hum )

Wow, so I was reading rynndragon's post and was amazed at how long ago that feels.. like another life time. So much has happened... Well, I did my comps and they weren't too bad. Won't know the results for awhile though. Now I have to work on the oral dissertation thingy, which needs to be done by August. I should get started sometime soon, especially now ( Read more... )

So exhausted.. Rachel's vacation is almost over, and I hope she had a great time! I gotta draw something to commemorate her great catfish catching skills. Urg.. so much to study for the comprehensive exam, I gotta get crackin. Six hours of pain over everything we were taught the last two years. Well, off to bed.

( science rants, yay )

Finally, the final Final is done and gone with forever (hopefully)! That means, no more real classes, aside from any my PI may or may not make me take randomly sometime possibly in the future. Buutt, my career in classes is over and done for good, and now I've got my Masters degree, woot ( Read more... )

"The Forbidden Kingdom" is a really fun movie. People should see it if they want an entertaining way to kill an afternoon ( Read more... )

Gave my first IRSS talk today, which is an intra department seminar thing. It went really well, but boy was it so incredibly draining, oooohhhh. On that same note, research is going.. well going, which is the same old story; but my first scientific paper with my name on it is currently under minor revision prior to publication, which basically ( Read more... )

Whoa man, I guess I should post in here, seeing as it's a whole new year and stuffz ( Read more... )