New Job!
I just got accepted to a position at The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard as a Bioinformatics Assembly Analyst (job description below):
Use software and databases to assemble and analyze genome sequence data. Serve as point person for groups across the program to identify and resolve technical problems relating to the assembly and analysis of genome data, propose and implement upgrades to existing tools and processes to enhance analysis techniques and the quality of results, and develop and implement novel analytical tools and processes.
Basically, this is exactly the sort of position I've dreamed of doing since I started majoring in Bioinformatics. Last Monday, I had an all day interviewing session at the Broad (15 people over 8 hours, including a lunch interview), and I felt it went really well. The position is with the first of three groups that I interviewed with. The team has a lot of people around my age, and they and their supervisor seemed very energetic and enthusiastic about what they do. The Broad is basically a think tank that is driven by research rather than corporate interests, with the focus being "empowering creative scientists to construct new powerful tools for genomic medicine, to make them accessible to the global scientific community, and to apply them to the understanding and treatment of disease."
This is just so amazingly exciting!