I am so bloody lucky I shoud have clovers growing out of my head!
I have the greatest reseach professor KNOWN TO MAN. I can't tell you (the uncaring public) enough about how this man had changed my life (for the better). I and so lucky to have met him, let alone be under his tutelage.
In my Junior year, I need to find a research professor for experience. I though I would work in the lab cleaning items, and slowly learning what the lab does. I e-mailed random Biochem professors hoping for a position in their lab as a lowly undergrad but each time, I was rejected/ignored. Until HE e-mailed me back. I was interviewed and found worthy! At this point, I was so glad to be picked. As a student going into research for the sciences, I should have started research sooner... like freshman/sophomore year. It was... wonderful to feel like I had my life back on track.
Not only did I wash dishes and clean the lab, but I help with the main experiments as well! While my roommate was counting seeds in her lab, I was passaiging cells, transforming lines, and performing PCR! I learned... and still am learning, so much. The professor in question was at first strict and I wasn't use to it. I panicked, stressed over it, but he was patient with me. Despite his professional nature, he really does care about how I'm doing/learning.
Now, while I work on grad applications, he's a constant e-mail companion as not only a letter writer, but a consultant. I...don't know what I would have done without him. Be more confused, have no idea what I'm doing, set myself on fire (could happen), or just wait a year. I still don't know if I will be accepted or not (and wait that dreadful year) but it's my best chance so far.
I'm sorry. I had panicked all day over a late letter of recommendation and he had sent an e-mail back with much needed and calming info. It's bad when he could feel my stress through my e-mail... I just feel so revealed I cried a little. I hope he knows how much this means to me. I must make it up to him one day. When I become famous and I give a speech, he'll be right there next to my family! He will get his credit for my educational life!
EDIT: I looked through my old posts and found Complain Time. Yes he was one of those who were late but he did get his things in time : D
In my Junior year, I need to find a research professor for experience. I though I would work in the lab cleaning items, and slowly learning what the lab does. I e-mailed random Biochem professors hoping for a position in their lab as a lowly undergrad but each time, I was rejected/ignored. Until HE e-mailed me back. I was interviewed and found worthy! At this point, I was so glad to be picked. As a student going into research for the sciences, I should have started research sooner... like freshman/sophomore year. It was... wonderful to feel like I had my life back on track.
Not only did I wash dishes and clean the lab, but I help with the main experiments as well! While my roommate was counting seeds in her lab, I was passaiging cells, transforming lines, and performing PCR! I learned... and still am learning, so much. The professor in question was at first strict and I wasn't use to it. I panicked, stressed over it, but he was patient with me. Despite his professional nature, he really does care about how I'm doing/learning.
Now, while I work on grad applications, he's a constant e-mail companion as not only a letter writer, but a consultant. I...don't know what I would have done without him. Be more confused, have no idea what I'm doing, set myself on fire (could happen), or just wait a year. I still don't know if I will be accepted or not (and wait that dreadful year) but it's my best chance so far.
I'm sorry. I had panicked all day over a late letter of recommendation and he had sent an e-mail back with much needed and calming info. It's bad when he could feel my stress through my e-mail... I just feel so revealed I cried a little. I hope he knows how much this means to me. I must make it up to him one day. When I become famous and I give a speech, he'll be right there next to my family! He will get his credit for my educational life!
EDIT: I looked through my old posts and found Complain Time. Yes he was one of those who were late but he did get his things in time : D