So many things about which to stress, so little time (which, incidentally, is one of the reasons I'm so stressed):

• 3 papers due Monday. One is a substantial revision for 21A.216, and two are for stupid irritating 7.02 scientific communication. I'll say it, loud and proud: whoever thought up the CI requirement deserves to be hung by his/her evil ( Read more... )

You know it's bad when the grad students all leave the lab on a Friday night... and you still have 2 hours of work left to do. Oh well, I love my job... and it's kind of nice to be the only one here. I actually think this is perhaps the first time I have ever been in Sheng lab alone... the lab is far too h-core for its own good (hence my 18-hour ( Read more... )

Well, class is SO done. Other than the Abnormal Psych class I'm taking up at Harvard, which I'm taking more or less because I want to, there will be no class for me until next September ( Read more... )

I've been severely chastised by smrjunior for not updating this to include recent extremely important life events... so here's the update ( Read more... )

I think a big part of becoming an MIT student is learning how to sleep anywhere, at any time, in any position. And today I am proud to annouce that I have added this vital skill to my repertoire... too bad I can't list this on my resume under "skills and interests", eh ( Read more... )

First, a general update. Life is going well here in DC... I still love my job, although I may be at the lab approximately 24 hours a day next week, as I was just informed yesterday that it would be good for me to genotype 300 rhesus macaques at 6 loci each by the end of July. And for those of you who can multiply, that means 1800 samples. I can ( Read more... )