Ahh, fall has come yet again and thus another year of school begins (year number 19 for me :(). I would like to say that this summer has been productive...but it hasn't. It's not for lack of effort, trust you me. I've been told that the first year of research can be a bit of a wash as it takes a while for you to work out all of the kinks in your experiments. Knowing this, I figured I would work extra hard, reasoning that if i work harder than the average grad student than I will have the same amount of failures, and a greater number of successes. Well, i was wrong...very wrong. Today Leela (the senior graduate student in the lab/my mentor) told me that our PI has noticed that I am working very hard...which should make me happy and flattered, but I just wanted to cry at that comment. Besides my PI's praise, I have hardly anything to show for the past 3 months of work. *Sigh* I guess "this is life" though (dunno what Brett was huffin' when he called it "blessed"). I'm sure in 5 more years from now I will have the success I seek *fingers crossed* lol. I think a flight attendant (on my trip home from FL) put it best when she said, "I love my job, I love my job...I'm just waiting for it to sink in..." lol. I guess that's how most of us will feel until we retire...perhaps I should just focus on making the best of it instead of crying about it ;) Well, back to research I go...can't wait for my love for grad life to sink in!
Looking forward to: Babysitting Brady next week while Will is on vacay...I LOVE that pup!!!!
Listening to: "Blessed" by Brett Dennen
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