Plan 2.0

( The story of How I Got Here, which most of you may have already heard more than once. )

And I'm now facing a couple of decisions.
The first is which lab/department to join. There are three departments to choose from: Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Cell Biology, or Genetics. I never imagined myself getting a Ph.D. in Genetics (dude, where did Genetics come from? somewhere over in left field...), but the lab I love is a Genetics lab.
The second is, you know, what to do with my life after graduate school, 'cause the plan never included what happened after the Ph.D..

So I finally, just tonight, made a new Plan. The Plan, Version 2.0.

Step 1) Join the Genetics lab.
Step 2) Get Ph.D. in Genetics.
Step 3) Do postdoc in Liz Blackburn's lab at UCSF.
Step 4) Get a faculty job at Berkeley, Stanford, UCLA, or UCSD.
Step 5) Become famous scientist who puts up with teaching requirements.

I hope TA'ing is a good experience for me. Otherwise I might have to scratch steps 4 and 5 and just open a flower shop after my postdoc.

Yaaay

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Also, I had a knitting party this evening. Nine women sitting around knitting and crocheting (and not talking about science) for two and a half hours.
Rock on.

Also also, I'm knitting a wire box for my mom. It's gonna be soooo cool! Pattern.
And the triangular shawl I'm making is coming along pretty nicely. I'm sort of using the Sophia wrap pattern, except that I'm using kfb instead of yo to increase at the ends of the rows. I started on the third skein today, but I'm not sure if five is going to make it big enough. I'm wondering if I should a) increase on every row instead of every other row from here on (so that it gets wide enough to throw around my shoulders before I run out of yarn), b) split the scarf in two and knit a thingy like this, or c) go back to the yarn store to see if they have any more of the same color (at $8/ball).
Oooh, paid account benefits!
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