Laboratoriness
So despite how wonderful she is, politics interfered with my plan of stability. He didn't have to be such a jerk about it, but I do recognize that he had my interests in mind and he really was being considerate towards my moral issues with harming cute furry white animals -- not that that matters too much since I'll have to be doing that this summer anyway.
And it really is better for me to get involved with human-based, clinical work that has a dual focus of a) productively increasing our body of knowledge and b) improving the lives of those who suffer from really interesting psychiatric conditions. And it really is better for me to learn about lab politics and their evils in my first lab rather than be mislead and later disenchanted. And it really is better for me to have failed at some point so that I'll fully appreciate success when it occurs -- such as this summer. And since she is willing to personally recommend me to any one of her colleagues, I feel I have tremendous leaving power as her role as my ally has not ended.
This summer = co-authorship for < three months of forty hours/week of paid funinalab with an apparently talented PI: He's not been teaching for four years and he's already tenured! *impressed nod* Yeah, seriously impressive. And for me to be on a piece of his work will increase my status to a far greater extent than having done Westerns for a considerate but uncommunicative jerk for eleven months who ignored me for the last four. I can't believe I managed to fall into such a great situation with such great people!
Communications have begun with a clinical researcher downtown but as he only teaches on Mondays (and as I gave him three people to track down as references for my character/abilities), he has not responded.
Furthermore, everything seems in place for my Fellowship application for next Spring; I just need to make sure to choose my recommenders carefully (her and him, both young and talented, most likely) because I noticed that for summer programs, those who received letters from that other exceedingly awesome man all rejected me, so mayhap I should avoid sending his letters anywhere.
Also, sitting down and talking with people is fantastic and should be both spontaneous and frequent.
And it really is better for me to get involved with human-based, clinical work that has a dual focus of a) productively increasing our body of knowledge and b) improving the lives of those who suffer from really interesting psychiatric conditions. And it really is better for me to learn about lab politics and their evils in my first lab rather than be mislead and later disenchanted. And it really is better for me to have failed at some point so that I'll fully appreciate success when it occurs -- such as this summer. And since she is willing to personally recommend me to any one of her colleagues, I feel I have tremendous leaving power as her role as my ally has not ended.
This summer = co-authorship for < three months of forty hours/week of paid funinalab with an apparently talented PI: He's not been teaching for four years and he's already tenured! *impressed nod* Yeah, seriously impressive. And for me to be on a piece of his work will increase my status to a far greater extent than having done Westerns for a considerate but uncommunicative jerk for eleven months who ignored me for the last four. I can't believe I managed to fall into such a great situation with such great people!
Communications have begun with a clinical researcher downtown but as he only teaches on Mondays (and as I gave him three people to track down as references for my character/abilities), he has not responded.
Furthermore, everything seems in place for my Fellowship application for next Spring; I just need to make sure to choose my recommenders carefully (her and him, both young and talented, most likely) because I noticed that for summer programs, those who received letters from that other exceedingly awesome man all rejected me, so mayhap I should avoid sending his letters anywhere.
Also, sitting down and talking with people is fantastic and should be both spontaneous and frequent.