There’s another first year graduate student rotating in the same lab that I’m rotating in, though he’s working on a different project from me. How do our projects differ, you ask?
1st Year: *talking to another labmate about something completely off topic*
Post doc: Hey, that’s five minutes you just wasted that could have gone toward curing autism!
Me: That’s why I’m not studying autism.
Post doc: *laughs* So you can waste as much time as you like?
Me: Yep. Evolution’s not going anywhere!
Joking aside, I actually have been getting a lot of work done. For the fellow biologists: I run my first microarray on Tuesday! For the non-biologists: I get to do cool nerdy stuff I haven’t done before!
This is why I don’t consider myself a science blogger. Too lazy.
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Dae
January 14, 2011 at 12:15 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Yay for microarrays! I start research as soon as I recover from the last part of my qualifying exams tomorrow, and I’ve got a lovely microarray printer sitting in the lab waiting to be my baby. (I’m in a brand new research group; my prof’s first student is only a year ahead of me and she’s working on something different, so this is really going to be an interesting exercise.) And an undergrad minion, too. Muahaha!
Marion Delgado
January 14, 2011 at 12:33 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
You’re a humorous science blogger. They get to blog less. Perfecting their craft.
Azkyroth
January 14, 2011 at 1:35 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Autism isn’t a disease. It can’t be “cured.” >.>
Epistaxis
January 14, 2011 at 1:50 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Microarray? How retro! Are you some kind of science hipster?
PhilB
January 14, 2011 at 2:31 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
My missus, who does have a biology degree, assures me that “microarrays are cool”.
Maudgalyan
January 14, 2011 at 3:18 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I am just playing with my first round of NGS data. RNA-Seq to be exact. The analysis is turning out to be a bit more involved than the stuff I did for microarrays…
LadyAtheist
January 14, 2011 at 3:24 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Coming from the humanities, I can say that I think anything micro and anything with an array is probably seriously awesome. You probably won’t have to use post-modern gibberish in your write-up either, which makes me drool with envy.
JediPsychologist
January 14, 2011 at 4:20 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
MICROARRAY!Fancy. Shiny. Expensive. Let us know how it goes!
Aardvark Cheeselog
January 14, 2011 at 7:11 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Sometimes reading this blog is like watching a kitten play with a ball of string.