Do what you love and love what you do...
Well, it’s been awhile. I survived getting my JNABS abstract submitted. Things haven’t really slowed down since then. I really need to get back into processing samples but I just haven’t gotten to it. It seems like there’s always more to do and not enough time to do it in. As of right now I have my take home midterm for aquatic ecosystem management due this week and I’ll be getting my freshwater algae midterm that will be due after spring break. I really don’t know where the time goes! It’s hard to believe that spring break is next week already and that Evan and I will have been married for 7 months a week from today!!
On the news front… Evan got offered an assistantship at MSU!!!! (starting either this summer or in the fall) We’ll finally get to live together!! So, now we’re in the process of looking for a new place to live closer to East Lansing. It’s going to be a bummer leaving Grand Haven but such is life. We’ll probably end up in the Lowell area because it’s about equal distant from the two universities. Also, if we can find a place that allows pets we might be adopting a dog from one of Elaine’s friends. I really hope we can find a place that allows it!! It would be so exciting! : )
This past weekend Evan was up visiting professors and whatnot at MSU. He seems to have really like Dr. Kelly who would be his new advisor. We he was there I spent Friday night over at Erin’s and we had a horror movie night! Lots of fun!! (and I got to meet here boy : ) ) This Saturday is Becky’s baby shower should be fun then heading down to see the in-laws and then over to Illinois for spring break.
Ya know I was thinking about something I read in my friend Bridget’s blog a little while back that is so true. She had a quote from Maya Angelo “Making a living is not the same as making a life.” Which is really an interesting thing to think about. We really do need to love what we do or life will just be miserable.
(Here’s the jist of what my friend said which I agree with along with a bit from me) Being in the natural sciences we really don’t have much of a hope of making much money, ever. But for the most part most of us love what we’re doing. We’ve got crazy stories to tell and really some of the best science gets done at the bar. There’s tons of scribbling away on napkins, while listeners throw mittfulls of peanut shells over their shoulder in whatever dive was closest to the field site for the day. It’s not a fashionable crowd, per say, we can always spot each other. We have conference after conference, where a bunch of nerds who love what you love sit around and talk for a whole weekend.
When you look at say business majors, they always look frantically stressed, already have ulcers, and hate what they’re doing. Sure, they’ll make a lot of money and be able to do jobs that I can’t even begin to comprehend but is that enough to have a happy life. Now I’m sure there are people out there in the business world that do like what they’re doing. This is also not to say that the natural sciences are perfect and they we don’t like money too because we do. But the people you end up working with is important. If you think about it once we’re out there with real jobs we’re going to be spending probably close to as much time with our coworkers as we will with our spouses and a getting in with a bad mix of coworkers can make for a very long ride. And from the words of Bridget “bitching about them could cause your spouse to hit you over the head with a frying pan. Also not good.”
So, all in all we should do what we love which will hopefully land us in with a good crowd.
Well, I suppose I’ve procrastinated on working on my midterm long enough although I really don’t want to do anything but watch CSI. Such is life.
Live life to its fullest!!
Tootles…
On the news front… Evan got offered an assistantship at MSU!!!! (starting either this summer or in the fall) We’ll finally get to live together!! So, now we’re in the process of looking for a new place to live closer to East Lansing. It’s going to be a bummer leaving Grand Haven but such is life. We’ll probably end up in the Lowell area because it’s about equal distant from the two universities. Also, if we can find a place that allows pets we might be adopting a dog from one of Elaine’s friends. I really hope we can find a place that allows it!! It would be so exciting! : )
This past weekend Evan was up visiting professors and whatnot at MSU. He seems to have really like Dr. Kelly who would be his new advisor. We he was there I spent Friday night over at Erin’s and we had a horror movie night! Lots of fun!! (and I got to meet here boy : ) ) This Saturday is Becky’s baby shower should be fun then heading down to see the in-laws and then over to Illinois for spring break.
Ya know I was thinking about something I read in my friend Bridget’s blog a little while back that is so true. She had a quote from Maya Angelo “Making a living is not the same as making a life.” Which is really an interesting thing to think about. We really do need to love what we do or life will just be miserable.
(Here’s the jist of what my friend said which I agree with along with a bit from me) Being in the natural sciences we really don’t have much of a hope of making much money, ever. But for the most part most of us love what we’re doing. We’ve got crazy stories to tell and really some of the best science gets done at the bar. There’s tons of scribbling away on napkins, while listeners throw mittfulls of peanut shells over their shoulder in whatever dive was closest to the field site for the day. It’s not a fashionable crowd, per say, we can always spot each other. We have conference after conference, where a bunch of nerds who love what you love sit around and talk for a whole weekend.
When you look at say business majors, they always look frantically stressed, already have ulcers, and hate what they’re doing. Sure, they’ll make a lot of money and be able to do jobs that I can’t even begin to comprehend but is that enough to have a happy life. Now I’m sure there are people out there in the business world that do like what they’re doing. This is also not to say that the natural sciences are perfect and they we don’t like money too because we do. But the people you end up working with is important. If you think about it once we’re out there with real jobs we’re going to be spending probably close to as much time with our coworkers as we will with our spouses and a getting in with a bad mix of coworkers can make for a very long ride. And from the words of Bridget “bitching about them could cause your spouse to hit you over the head with a frying pan. Also not good.”
So, all in all we should do what we love which will hopefully land us in with a good crowd.
Well, I suppose I’ve procrastinated on working on my midterm long enough although I really don’t want to do anything but watch CSI. Such is life.
Live life to its fullest!!
Tootles…