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Making peace with being a beginner
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[10:24pm] I am currently sitting on my bed, dying from the heat that I turned on myself. I’m too lazy to go and turn off the heater, so I’ve been working in these self-imposed hot and dry conditions for 2+ hours. Anyway, it’s been what I am cautiously calling a…
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Firsts & Little Wins
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[9:38am] I feel a little embarrassed. I attended my first lab meeting today (I’ve been a part of the lab for ~1 month, but have mostly been working one-on-one with my mentor). I really wanted to contribute something [meaningful], but from the confusion on the presenter’s face, I probably said…
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‘Greetings for the Day’ and other stories.
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The other day one of my groupmates sent an email to a Professor (and cc’d us), and her greeting was ‘Greetings for the day’. It caught me off guard and I chuckled a little more than I should have (I had never seen one like that before on email), but…
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Hard Days and Tough Truths
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Hello again, It appears today I am even more exhausted than the previous day. I slept quite late last night (after 12am), and woke up around 6am. I was in lab all day till 5:30pm. The thought of having to come back home and do other school work truly defeats…
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I can’t believe I’m finally doing this!
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AHHHHH! Hello everyone (well, I guess just me for now). Despite the amateur appearance of this website, this has been about two months in the making. I kept pushing this off for weeks at a time; 1 part laziness, 3 parts anxiety about whether or not I should even do…