on doubt and quals ...
i kind of suck at being a scientist. and it's mainly because i have a hard time with the unknown. i like knowing the right answer - i hate being in a state of limbo where i may be wrong or i may be right (and i really, really hate being flat out wrong). because of this, i'm having one hell of a time finishing my qualification exam. i don't like answering a question by SPECULATING. i become completely paralyzed by doubting my speculative abilities, so much so that putting even a well-informed speculation on paper makes me feel like a failure. this probably doesn't make sense to you people reading this (if any of you are ... and i'll admit that it doesn't quite make sense to me the way i've written it ... but i get where i'm coming from).
maybe i should embrace the freedom of the unknown. since the answer isn't known at the moment, and all i was asked to do was speculate, how could i be wrong? well, i guess i could be wrong if my answer was something crazy, like "differential signaling through a shared receptor is the result of the mass consumption of sugar by panda bears". but i doubt i'd make that my answer. although it is tempting.
is school over yet?
EDIT: all of this worry over 2 pages double-spaced. seems kind of silly. i mean, honestly, there's like no space to even write an answer!
maybe i should embrace the freedom of the unknown. since the answer isn't known at the moment, and all i was asked to do was speculate, how could i be wrong? well, i guess i could be wrong if my answer was something crazy, like "differential signaling through a shared receptor is the result of the mass consumption of sugar by panda bears". but i doubt i'd make that my answer. although it is tempting.
is school over yet?
EDIT: all of this worry over 2 pages double-spaced. seems kind of silly. i mean, honestly, there's like no space to even write an answer!