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OMG.
That's all.
Or maybe I should give some explanation?
About a month ago, my last year at university started. This is usually the time for people who want to do a PhD next year to start poking around labs and annoying the professors, and I'm no different. At the end of last year, me and a couple of my classmates received an invitation from the analytical chemistry prof, so she was the first I visited. She offered me a chance to do research in America, to which news I was all like "OMG, squee, kinda wants to hug the professor". But then I reconsidered - three years abroad is actually extremely long, and everything would be so different from my time in Lyon - more work and less play, for one. On the other hand, she's still looking for people to study in her own lab, which is, as she slyly told me, one of the best analytical labs in the world. But still... Analytical chemistry? Not very exciting.
So then I went to the medicinal chemistry prof. In his lab, they're doing the same research I did in Lyon, and I really enjoyed that. It's actually the reason I wanted to study pharmacy in the first place: invent new molecules! Perform organic chemistry! Make things explode! However, he wasn't very enthusiastic about my proposal - it's like he's already got all the people he needs and he kept warning me about the bucket-loads of work I'd have to do. Which I'm not afraid of, I might add - he just didn't seem very convinced.
So far, so good - I've got the choice between one dream (going abroad) and the other (studying organic chemistry). And then, this morning, out of the blue, I got a phone call from another professor. When I answered my cell phone (how did he even get the number?), he just said his name and I could literally feel my heart jump into my throat. He wanted to know whether I would like to get a PhD-degree and whether I would like to do it as a member of his team. And that's what the OMG was about - if he calls me, he must really want me! (Or maybe he just calls everybody... I'll hear about that when I go to class this afternoon.) I haven't the faintest clue what they do at his lab (it's the biotech lab, so that should give me a general idea), but this offer means I've got another choice to add to the list. And I've never been good at deciding!
I've decided to return to this journal to track my progress - if anybody on my f-list has a two-cents'-worth to add, please do, I can use all the help I can get to make up my mind.
Now I'll try to switch off the OMG-mode and go back to studying for Monday's test on pharmaceutical technology and the one on toxicology. This is going to be difficult...
That's all.
Or maybe I should give some explanation?
About a month ago, my last year at university started. This is usually the time for people who want to do a PhD next year to start poking around labs and annoying the professors, and I'm no different. At the end of last year, me and a couple of my classmates received an invitation from the analytical chemistry prof, so she was the first I visited. She offered me a chance to do research in America, to which news I was all like "OMG, squee, kinda wants to hug the professor". But then I reconsidered - three years abroad is actually extremely long, and everything would be so different from my time in Lyon - more work and less play, for one. On the other hand, she's still looking for people to study in her own lab, which is, as she slyly told me, one of the best analytical labs in the world. But still... Analytical chemistry? Not very exciting.
So then I went to the medicinal chemistry prof. In his lab, they're doing the same research I did in Lyon, and I really enjoyed that. It's actually the reason I wanted to study pharmacy in the first place: invent new molecules! Perform organic chemistry! Make things explode! However, he wasn't very enthusiastic about my proposal - it's like he's already got all the people he needs and he kept warning me about the bucket-loads of work I'd have to do. Which I'm not afraid of, I might add - he just didn't seem very convinced.
So far, so good - I've got the choice between one dream (going abroad) and the other (studying organic chemistry). And then, this morning, out of the blue, I got a phone call from another professor. When I answered my cell phone (how did he even get the number?), he just said his name and I could literally feel my heart jump into my throat. He wanted to know whether I would like to get a PhD-degree and whether I would like to do it as a member of his team. And that's what the OMG was about - if he calls me, he must really want me! (Or maybe he just calls everybody... I'll hear about that when I go to class this afternoon.) I haven't the faintest clue what they do at his lab (it's the biotech lab, so that should give me a general idea), but this offer means I've got another choice to add to the list. And I've never been good at deciding!
I've decided to return to this journal to track my progress - if anybody on my f-list has a two-cents'-worth to add, please do, I can use all the help I can get to make up my mind.
Now I'll try to switch off the OMG-mode and go back to studying for Monday's test on pharmaceutical technology and the one on toxicology. This is going to be difficult...