employment commences
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psocopteraThing I find most ironic: both days now I've shown up earlier than the rest of the lab and had to loiter in the hall (20 minutes or so) until someone with a key came in. And this is me of the difficulty with mornings. Am pondering switching to next train (28 minutes later), but kind of like having it as a fallback.
Thing I find most encouraging but shouldn't: watching my new boss make a variety of minor errors and fumbles in the course of doing several miscellaneous procedures . See, if *he* makes mistakes, he can't expect perfection...
Thing I find least encouraging: he thinks a maxiprep should take two hours? Um, four? Well, really more like 3.5, but it's a good thing to allow for slow columns and extra spins (see above)... will have to keep time-log during prep tomorrow to back up position if ever need to decline to start one at 3. Am tech, not grad student.
Thing I'm most "enh" about: seminars and lab meetings. Dude, real scientists actually seem to enjoy this stuff. I dunno, I like reading articles, but I have *such* a hard time following lectures... when I read articles, I'm all flippy-flippy between the text and figures and abstract and stuff, and I can *pause* if I need to think about something... and if I doze off I can pick up from my place again... Oh well, at the moment it's actually optional for me to attend seminars (my plan is to go whenever my PI makes a point of telling me it's going to be a good talk). Although I should to "keep up with science" while I'm on leave, and because I'm hoping that someday I'll have been to enough lectures to start having questions to ask and stuff... but that won't happen if I don't go to lectures...
Anyways, yes. Working!
Thing I find most encouraging but shouldn't: watching my new boss make a variety of minor errors and fumbles in the course of doing several miscellaneous procedures . See, if *he* makes mistakes, he can't expect perfection...
Thing I find least encouraging: he thinks a maxiprep should take two hours? Um, four? Well, really more like 3.5, but it's a good thing to allow for slow columns and extra spins (see above)... will have to keep time-log during prep tomorrow to back up position if ever need to decline to start one at 3. Am tech, not grad student.
Thing I'm most "enh" about: seminars and lab meetings. Dude, real scientists actually seem to enjoy this stuff. I dunno, I like reading articles, but I have *such* a hard time following lectures... when I read articles, I'm all flippy-flippy between the text and figures and abstract and stuff, and I can *pause* if I need to think about something... and if I doze off I can pick up from my place again... Oh well, at the moment it's actually optional for me to attend seminars (my plan is to go whenever my PI makes a point of telling me it's going to be a good talk). Although I should to "keep up with science" while I'm on leave, and because I'm hoping that someday I'll have been to enough lectures to start having questions to ask and stuff... but that won't happen if I don't go to lectures...
Anyways, yes. Working!
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Date: 2002-10-08 06:51 pm (UTC)So glad that things are working out, and it's also lovely to see somebody else with a biology background around here. *pumps fist* Go prep kits!
*is horrendously plebey tonight*