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Man, what is it about California?
Initially, I thought all my potential post-docs would be in Pittsburgh or Chicago. Being a huge fan of not freezing to death, I've been looking into other options.
So first I find UC-Davis. There's a high-level researcher there that I've actually worked with. We'd be using primate models, which is kinda meh, but doable. And then I found this program at UC-San Francisco! Much better fit, and there are a number of high-level researchers there that I have met in passing. I shall schmooze them at the PNIRS conference this summer. And today! In cleaning up my desk and surrounding pile of crap, I came across a document I picked up at PNIRS last year: a call for applications to the Cousins Center. It's at... UCLA. UCLA looks cool, but it's in Los Angeles. I'd be studying own immunology as I slowly hacked my asthmatic lungs out.
I still think UCSF is perfect. The sun came out from behind the clouds as I typed that, so I shall take it as a sign! The campus is dedicated to health sciences, three awesome faculty I want to work with are there, and one of their current postdoc fellows is a woman I drank beer out of a plastic boot with last summer. =D
K. Paper, writtens, orals, NRSA, write paper, conference, teach, proposal, run study, run more different study, conference, teach, write diss, defense, graduate. I'm on it! Looks like I won't finish until 2011, though... Mom will be unhappy. She's looking forward to having an excuse to go to California. I am down with this, as it keeps her off the topic of grandchildren!
Initially, I thought all my potential post-docs would be in Pittsburgh or Chicago. Being a huge fan of not freezing to death, I've been looking into other options.
So first I find UC-Davis. There's a high-level researcher there that I've actually worked with. We'd be using primate models, which is kinda meh, but doable. And then I found this program at UC-San Francisco! Much better fit, and there are a number of high-level researchers there that I have met in passing. I shall schmooze them at the PNIRS conference this summer. And today! In cleaning up my desk and surrounding pile of crap, I came across a document I picked up at PNIRS last year: a call for applications to the Cousins Center. It's at... UCLA. UCLA looks cool, but it's in Los Angeles. I'd be studying own immunology as I slowly hacked my asthmatic lungs out.
I still think UCSF is perfect. The sun came out from behind the clouds as I typed that, so I shall take it as a sign! The campus is dedicated to health sciences, three awesome faculty I want to work with are there, and one of their current postdoc fellows is a woman I drank beer out of a plastic boot with last summer. =D
K. Paper, writtens, orals, NRSA, write paper, conference, teach, proposal, run study, run more different study, conference, teach, write diss, defense, graduate. I'm on it! Looks like I won't finish until 2011, though... Mom will be unhappy. She's looking forward to having an excuse to go to California. I am down with this, as it keeps her off the topic of grandchildren!