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Jun. 22nd, 2005
Yesterday I told Boss that I'm not going to register for school again in the fall semester. I expressed my desire to leave grad school and that I think a Real Job is what's best for me right now. He didn't snap at me with the "That's fine, if you have no problem working fast food for the rest of your life" speech that he gave other grad students, so I didn't have to use the "If your goal is to not have grad students, you're doing an excellent job" retort that ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
downwood suggested I prepare.
I can add three new states to my List of Places I've Been, even though two of those were only driven through. I got to spend four glorious days in Pittsburgh for the wedding ofczar_victaar and She of No LJ. bexdragon warned me in advance that I'd need to bring extra tissues to the ceremony. She was right. It was absolutely beautiful and I'm so glad that I was able to be there. Outside of the wedding preparations, I was very happy to get to spend time with the Rev. Bex and galieth. Much booze, dancing, and playing of morbid card games was had.
If I can figure out how to do it, I might end up posting some of the data I've been gathering in lab to this space. It's pretty interesting time-lapse microscopy. It almost makes me wish that I were staying to see this thing through to the end. Almost. Yes, I'm still scared out of my mind. Yes, I still think it's the right decision.
Science is still spiffy, though.jrug pointed out this article to me today. I would love to be able to work on this system. If they can figure out the mechanism by which the viruses target cancerous cells, they're sitting on a fortune and a couple of Nobels. I'd be worried about the possibility of contamination, the effects of the entire body on the activity, and non-specific killing, but those are things that will get figured out with more research.
If you have a subscription to Science Online, you may want to check out this article. I've put the full text and picture behind a cut for those without the ready cash or university connection. They think they've found photosynthetic bacteria at the bottom of the ocean that use bioluminescence, carbon dioxide, and sulfur to stay alive. This flies in the face of much that scientists had considered "fact". I think that it's insanely cool.
( Deep-Sea Bacterium Breaks All the Rules )
downwood suggested I prepare.I can add three new states to my List of Places I've Been, even though two of those were only driven through. I got to spend four glorious days in Pittsburgh for the wedding of
czar_victaar and She of No LJ. bexdragon warned me in advance that I'd need to bring extra tissues to the ceremony. She was right. It was absolutely beautiful and I'm so glad that I was able to be there. Outside of the wedding preparations, I was very happy to get to spend time with the Rev. Bex and galieth. Much booze, dancing, and playing of morbid card games was had. If I can figure out how to do it, I might end up posting some of the data I've been gathering in lab to this space. It's pretty interesting time-lapse microscopy. It almost makes me wish that I were staying to see this thing through to the end. Almost. Yes, I'm still scared out of my mind. Yes, I still think it's the right decision.
Science is still spiffy, though.
jrug pointed out this article to me today. I would love to be able to work on this system. If they can figure out the mechanism by which the viruses target cancerous cells, they're sitting on a fortune and a couple of Nobels. I'd be worried about the possibility of contamination, the effects of the entire body on the activity, and non-specific killing, but those are things that will get figured out with more research.If you have a subscription to Science Online, you may want to check out this article. I've put the full text and picture behind a cut for those without the ready cash or university connection. They think they've found photosynthetic bacteria at the bottom of the ocean that use bioluminescence, carbon dioxide, and sulfur to stay alive. This flies in the face of much that scientists had considered "fact". I think that it's insanely cool.
( Deep-Sea Bacterium Breaks All the Rules )
heheheh...god, I'm a nerd
Jun. 22nd, 2005 03:40 pmYou Might Be a Physics Student If...
* you have no life - and you can PROVE it mathematically.
* you know vector calculus but you can't remember how to do long division.
* you chuckle whenever anyone says "centrifugal force."
* you've actually used every single function on your graphing calculator.
* you always do homework on Friday nights.
* you know how to integrate a chicken and can take the derivative of water.
* you've calculated that the World Series actually diverges.
* you hesitate to look at something because you don't want to break down its wave function.
* you have a pet named after a scientist.
* you laugh at jokes about mathematicians.
* you can translate English into binary.
* you can't remember what's behind the science-building door that says "Exit."
* you have to bring a jacket with you in the middle of summer, because there's a wind-chill factor in the lab.
* you consider ANY non-science course "easy."
* when your professor asks you where your homework is, you claim to have accidentally determined its momentum so precisely that, according to Heisenberg, it could be anywhere in the universe.
* you assume that a "horse" is a "sphere" in order to make the math easier.
* you understood more than five of these indicators.
* you made a hard copy of this list and posted it on your door.
* you have no life - and you can PROVE it mathematically.
* you know vector calculus but you can't remember how to do long division.
* you chuckle whenever anyone says "centrifugal force."
* you've actually used every single function on your graphing calculator.
* you always do homework on Friday nights.
* you know how to integrate a chicken and can take the derivative of water.
* you've calculated that the World Series actually diverges.
* you hesitate to look at something because you don't want to break down its wave function.
* you have a pet named after a scientist.
* you laugh at jokes about mathematicians.
* you can translate English into binary.
* you can't remember what's behind the science-building door that says "Exit."
* you have to bring a jacket with you in the middle of summer, because there's a wind-chill factor in the lab.
* you consider ANY non-science course "easy."
* when your professor asks you where your homework is, you claim to have accidentally determined its momentum so precisely that, according to Heisenberg, it could be anywhere in the universe.
* you assume that a "horse" is a "sphere" in order to make the math easier.
* you understood more than five of these indicators.
* you made a hard copy of this list and posted it on your door.
