i find it kinda funny, i find it kinda sad, the dreams in which i'm dying are the best i've ever had
Yesterday morning I drove the 100 miles to San Francisco for an interview with the Kuzell Institute for Arthritis and Infectious Diseases. I spoke at length with one of the assistant researchers to Dr. Young, who runs the laboratory. He was able to bring me up to date about their research - they study the effectiveness of various antibiotics against M. avium, the bacteria that is both robust and ubiquitous that causes the 3rd leading cause of death in AIDS patients. Their studies have led to a number of AIDS medications that are now widely utilized. I hope to be hearing back from them soon. If I'm taken up as a research assistant I believe I'll be moving down to the bay area.
Unfortunately I couldn't get a hold of any of my friends down in bay area while I was there and so I drove home, in rush hour traffic - it took me 4 hours to get home.
This morning, after a good 5 hours of sleep, I drove back down to the bay area. I arrived at Stanford University around 8:30 and immediately searched for some coffee. After hours of presentations and talks I was finally able to get my talk out of the way. I found it was best to premise my research by asking people to shut their eyes. I would then ask, "I which direction is the door." Of course they were all able to accomplish the task with ease, even though the presentation hall was novel to most every body. "How," I asked, did you know it was there?", which would lead right into my research: the HD cell's I study seem to play a role in creating a mental representation, or 'cognitive map', of our environment. With this little premise my talk seems much more palatable to those who haven't a clue about neurophysiology - which is great; you want people, all people, to be able to follow your research or else it's all just high-knobbed and prolix lexicon.
Unfortunately I couldn't get a hold of any of my friends down in bay area while I was there and so I drove home, in rush hour traffic - it took me 4 hours to get home.
This morning, after a good 5 hours of sleep, I drove back down to the bay area. I arrived at Stanford University around 8:30 and immediately searched for some coffee. After hours of presentations and talks I was finally able to get my talk out of the way. I found it was best to premise my research by asking people to shut their eyes. I would then ask, "I which direction is the door." Of course they were all able to accomplish the task with ease, even though the presentation hall was novel to most every body. "How," I asked, did you know it was there?", which would lead right into my research: the HD cell's I study seem to play a role in creating a mental representation, or 'cognitive map', of our environment. With this little premise my talk seems much more palatable to those who haven't a clue about neurophysiology - which is great; you want people, all people, to be able to follow your research or else it's all just high-knobbed and prolix lexicon.