Copyright 2004 Associated Newspapers Ltd. Mail on Sunday (London)

August 8, 2004

BY ALUN REES

FRANCIS CRICK, the Nobel Prize-winning father of modern genetics, was under the influence of LSD when he first deduced thedouble-helix structure of DNA nearly 50 years ago.

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was kind of disappointing. It went alright, but I found out you have to have a medical technologist's licence to do any real lab work. "Lab assistant" basically means taking care of the paperwork involved in testing blood types and whatever. I wanted to spin blood in a centrifuge ( Read more... )

I'm home again! Yay I have a job interview Monday! Yay!

Trip report to come.

so apparently i'm supposed to put a short descriptive name for resumes on monster.com. i have no idea what to put. Entry-level scientist? Aspiring lab worker/researcher?

So I got to San Francisco yesterday.

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was a bust. There were maybe 5 tables set up with some kind of health care positions, but they were all looking for RNs/BSNs etc. I got business cards anyway and gave away a couple of resumes, then when I got home I found out most of them were different branches of the same two hospital groups. Oh yeah, and they want like a year hospital experience ( Read more... )

oh god i have a job fair tomorrow ;_;

I've been pretty antisocial lately, but I've been getting stuff done. Me and Mike have reorganized a good portion of the house. We almost have enough space for the weight set his aunt said she'd give us. We also decided to try running in the Garparilla 5K race, so we've been running just about every other day. Last night I jogged almost 3 miles ( Read more... )

A couple months ago, me and Mike decided to get new computer speakers. We got some Logitech 4.1 system from Best Buy, not really great but whatever. Less than a month later, one of the channels in the subwoofer blows so we take it back and exchange it for a different model. Maybe a month and a half later, both rear channels blow. So okay, we ( Read more... )