Famous Friends and Fashion Drunks
I have been feeling so sick lately :( I'm sure alcohol binges just don't help anything :/ I have a huge presentation due about my senior research project that I want to start...but haven't quite delved into yet. I'll be presenting to faculty members as well as students because this is the research that Erin (my professor) wrote his grant about...basically tons of pressure. Ugh. Maybe this research can be the ground-breaking piece that the field of health and comparative immunology has been missing (as we are hoping it will be). I never thought I'd get an opportunity like this, and if Erin hadn't been hired to teach my now favorite class (Immunology), I probably would be sticking to the slums of researching things I'm not even interested in....like gene expression in craniofacial patterning of zebrafish development. I'm really glad he put me on this project, and it gives me tons of experience in molecular biology techniques, but really...its tons of work. I can honestly say I work full-time hours on it. Its teaching me not to be such a perfectionist and to have confidence in my own work. Not getting the desired results happened 100029023802 times before I actually got anything. Not knowing whether it was my technique, as a beginner, or just the structure of the experiments that were not working literally drove me crazy for the first whole month of doing this. In research, for every 10,000 failures, it is likely that 5 good things come out of it. I'm not very used to imperfection when it comes to my own work...I had to learn that really fast. To go along with my theory that everything serves its purpose...I know I won't go into research professionally....but 1. at least I have a backup if patient care doesn't work out 2. I learned the importance on having confidence in my techniques and 3. I learned how to fail many times and be ok with it. I'd say that is not bad life experience at all!
...ehh I learn as I go...
...ehh I learn as I go...