A friend of mine (darlazy) told me once that if you want people to read your livejournal you should only write when you have something interesting to say, and not write long entries. So, sometimes I feel self conscious writing in livejournal. I think to myself: are my entries too long? Am I writing stupid things? I've noticed a number of occassions ( Read more... )

Well this will be one of my late night entries from not being able to sleep. I keep thinking about the fact that one day I may actually graduate from this Ph.D. program (tfy-tfy-tfy) and it makes me feel very scared and excited at the same time. On one hand the idea is exciting because it means moving on to the next step, but on the other hand its ( Read more... )

I found this writing group on Craigslist that meets casually once a week (its called the not so serious writing group). People write for an hour and then some share their work. The next meeting is this Wednesday on Upper West Side. Is anyone interested in checking it out with me?

Today was a good day I would say. I'm supposed to have an advisory committee meeting on Friday (where 4 professors listen to me talk for an hour and give feedback) and I did a practice presentation for my advisor. Then at the end he asked me ( Read more... )

3 stages of being a Ph.D student ( Read more... )

A few days ago I ran into this guy from my Ph.D. program who is supposed to graduate this summer ( Read more... )

I'm sitting at home by myself and I feel lonely. I think its very strange because I have only been by myself for about an hour. Do most people feel lonely this easily? or may be I have some loneliness disorder. I live in a big city where something is always going on, but yet I still feel like I don't live close enough to it. Upper East side is ( Read more... )

For anyone frusturated with the research world this is a great guide ( Read more... )

To start of this entry I would like to say that I think I'm missing some friends in my live journal. So if people could give me suggestions of friends who I should add it would be very nice ( Read more... )

When I was a Senior in at Columbia, I took a really difficult 5 credit lab course in Biochemistry. At end of second semester we were supposed to write a 40 page lab report about our projects. I remember the feeling I had when I was handing in this lab report, for which I pulled numerous all nighters, this is the end of all suffering:). As I gave ( Read more... )