I planned things
I am in a somewhat good mood as I finished my evil research plan* yesterday and the people who have looked at it so far actually like it and think it looks exciting. It is not horribly flawed!!!!!!!!!. Another bit of good news is that a couple of other people in the lab are going to be embarking on similar things so I will not be scared and clueless all on my own ( I find it helps to be part of a group of scared and clueless people). I think I'm going to bunk off home early as a reward for not sucking too much. I need sleep as I'm exhausted but at least I'm relaxed and exhausted rather than stress-ball exhausted.
* I possibly haven't bitched about this enough of LJ for you to know what this is. Basically (if this means anything to you) I am doing an experiment involving DNA microarrays, which no one in my lab knows much about. I went to a meeting with Ary (my supervisor), expecting to be given information about how to go about things but was instead told to come up with a research plan (on my own). This stressed me muchly as I WANT BTO BE TOLD WHAT TO DO AND HOW TO DO IT LIKE IN HONOURS but after a few days of paper reading later I felt (slightly) more confident and actually produced something semi decent. I think I need to learn to back myself a bit more.
* I possibly haven't bitched about this enough of LJ for you to know what this is. Basically (if this means anything to you) I am doing an experiment involving DNA microarrays, which no one in my lab knows much about. I went to a meeting with Ary (my supervisor), expecting to be given information about how to go about things but was instead told to come up with a research plan (on my own). This stressed me muchly as I WANT BTO BE TOLD WHAT TO DO AND HOW TO DO IT LIKE IN HONOURS but after a few days of paper reading later I felt (slightly) more confident and actually produced something semi decent. I think I need to learn to back myself a bit more.