before i get back to figuring out why cells are metastatic... just thought i'd share that i'm doing much better now, having learned all i ever wanted to know about protein mass spectrometry, cell transfection methods, site-directed mutagenesis, and most of the other experimenty things that i've proposed... i at least understand the basic "how" ( Read more... )

i fail at science. i really do. i know that rather than complaining how f'ing much i have to know for quals i should probably be studying for them, but at the moment i feel like venting. so here it is ( Read more... )

here's the calendar of life for the next few weeks ( Read more... )

sadly not the boy buys me dinner kind, but more like the, i sort of know when my qualifying exam is going to be. so i have a goal and a deadline for everything to be finished. *sighs* i'm not currently freaking out, but i might be in a couple of hours or probably tomorrow. so, friends, on friday, august 3rd, i'll be facing the firing squad. the ( Read more... )

i knew that i should have made new media or at the very least filter sterilized the old media after i found out that there were bacteria in one of my cell lines... but no... it isn't the media that's contaminated... it's the cells. somehow the little buggers got little bugs in them... maybe i passed my hand accidentally over the open plate.. maybe ( Read more... )

i'm well on my way to qualifying for this phd thing. i had my pre-exam meeting yesterday afternoon, where i presented to my committee members basically what i want to do in my fake grant, and then we talked about what's good and bad about what i've proposed to do. strangely enough, i felt pretty good after it was done. which is very different ( Read more... )

i feel like it's a rite of passage for everyone. today... i sliced my finger open while chopping some onions. it was bound to happen.. especially today, just from how today was going. and i just thought that i'd share. fingers bleed like the dickens (hehe... yeah like marina =P) though, i must say. but i think it's stopped now ( Read more... )

and it won't all fit into my brain. i'm slowly going crazy, i think. i have about 2 months until my qualifying exam... well.. at least i sort of hope that i have 2 months until my qualifying exam. i'm not really sure when it will be just yet because i have to wait until my pre-exam meeting to schedule my exam, and i have to wait until i'm told ( Read more... )

some people are big into their own birthdays, and that's cool. i am not one of those people. i don't like broadcasting to the world when my birthday is, and that's just the way i am. i don't really know how this came about because i used to look forward to my birthday when i was younger. i used to look forward to having parties and having all ( Read more... )

i haven't posted in awhile, so i thought i'd remedy that. on a scientific front... well... it goes. i'm trying to get ready for my qualifying exam. i have about 15 days to come up with another topic, because all of the ones that i think of are too close to my thesis project, and my qual has to be different from my thesis and from any projects ( Read more... )