Oh I have quite a lot to add to this post, but bear with me because I'm writing my thesis and feeling thoroughly depressed that two papers have come out of our group this year that I could have contributed data too and my bossy wouldn't let me. I knew about them and have avoided them so far but in twisting the knife a bit more he has insisted that I go through them and lift bits for my discussion. Ho hum
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I certainly have, though it helps that my superviser wasn't expecting too much out of me, being only an ickle second year after all, and has also been really great with finding me new things to do.
It doesn't surprise me that the physical scientists are the bane of life science - I bet it doesn't help that physicists naturally think themselves superior to everyone else and probably try giving advice when it really isn't necessary (fortunately, my supervisor was not one of these, but he did tell a cautionary tale or two...).
Good luck with your thesis! I've been a complete LJ hermit for the past couple of months and all I'm doing is random stuff, so I do appreciate you taking the time to leave encouraging comments!
I think you're describing all scientists there :P we're all like that. Thing is, the problem with interdisciplinary science is that we all come at it from a different viewpoint. Things that are alarmingly important to physicists I couldn't care less about. Things that are important to me are unimportant to them. The only real issue is that I have met them head on in *my* experimental space. Where things that are important to me should be respected. Like cleanliness. And they just aren't. The other issue was that they were using the place where I was growing and maintaining my cells to bring theirs to die. So they weren't so fussed that their cells might die after a day or two as they were already dead. And not at all fussed that with just one incubator their cells couldn't be quarantined and would often infect mine with things they picked up off the bus from the other campus, I imagine
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I'm sorry you're having such trouble getting work. Just think, only a few months back I was looking to give some work to a Manchester student: for a bio I'm writing (about an ex-Owens College student) I needed someone to look through some papers at the M/c County records office. I thought of the student union; there are two sites, it would seem, but neither has an email address! So I prepared an ad on paper, and sent it to the Union with a covering letter asking them to post it on their jobs board. No acknowledgement. No answers to my ad. Was it ever posted? In the end I flew to M/c (I live in Switzerland), stayed in a hotel, looked through the papers ... and spent £££ that I would happily have given to a student like y'self. So tell the Union to pull their fingers out and respond when people offer jobs for students! You were asking about the price of air flights ca 1960. The price for a student flight to New York from London was £65 in 1963. Does that help? Cheers Peter
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It doesn't surprise me that the physical scientists are the bane of life science - I bet it doesn't help that physicists naturally think themselves superior to everyone else and probably try giving advice when it really isn't necessary (fortunately, my supervisor was not one of these, but he did tell a cautionary tale or two...).
Good luck with your thesis! I've been a complete LJ hermit for the past couple of months and all I'm doing is random stuff, so I do appreciate you taking the time to leave encouraging comments!
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You were asking about the price of air flights ca 1960. The price for a student flight to New York from London was £65 in 1963. Does that help?
Cheers
Peter
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