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I hate it when I feel like I desperately need to write, but I don't know what to write about.
I sort of picked my qualifying committee today. If the scheduling works out among all three faculty members (and all three say yes to my request that they be on my committee...), I'll start qualifying the second week of September. I'll then read for six weeks instead of five (to accommodate one professor's travel plans), write for 1.5 to two weeks, and then take the qualifying exam the first/secondish week of November.
I'm no longer freaked out about the process. I'm more sort of...tired. Thinking about it just makes me tired. Part of me is really excited, but it's a really tiny, really far away part. Hopefully, as the beginning of the exam draws nearer, my enthusiasm will increase. After all, I'm in graduate school, and in this lab, because I love science, right? Because I love ribosomes? Even though that makes me super weird?
Does anyone have any good book recommendations? I'm looking for something in science or in current events. Definitely not fiction. I'm feeling particularly uninformed lately, and I'd like to read a book on something other than genetics. So anything mathy, physicsy, or current eventsy should do it. Anyone? Anyone?
I sort of picked my qualifying committee today. If the scheduling works out among all three faculty members (and all three say yes to my request that they be on my committee...), I'll start qualifying the second week of September. I'll then read for six weeks instead of five (to accommodate one professor's travel plans), write for 1.5 to two weeks, and then take the qualifying exam the first/secondish week of November.
I'm no longer freaked out about the process. I'm more sort of...tired. Thinking about it just makes me tired. Part of me is really excited, but it's a really tiny, really far away part. Hopefully, as the beginning of the exam draws nearer, my enthusiasm will increase. After all, I'm in graduate school, and in this lab, because I love science, right? Because I love ribosomes? Even though that makes me super weird?
Does anyone have any good book recommendations? I'm looking for something in science or in current events. Definitely not fiction. I'm feeling particularly uninformed lately, and I'd like to read a book on something other than genetics. So anything mathy, physicsy, or current eventsy should do it. Anyone? Anyone?
