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About Me
I am a nerd. Well, a nice nerd. Some say I'm a cute nerd. Sometimes I'm a happy nerd. Sometimes I'm a sad nerd. I can be a perky nerd. Or an emotional nerd. Sometimes the raddest nerd ever. But nonetheless, a nerd. Previous Posts
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Friday, November 24, 2006
I miss skating!
Must get off lazy ass and get on my feet one of these days!
Oh, and I gave in and bought a bike...do I forsee myself actually riding the bike? Ha ha hahaha...=) But the bike was cheap and I forsee myself making a profit selling it if I don't ride it...which was probably my rationale for buying the bike. Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Growing pains
Despite feeling well immersed in biology as an undergrad, grad school has certainly contained a steep learning curve. Maybe if I took biology seminar classes and read and discussed papers outside my research lab, I would have been much more prepared for what I'm doing now. No, I defintely don't regret double majoring. I feel like ISF has certainly broaded my perspective of the world even if it means not have delved as deeply into aspects of biology. Writing my 10 page NIH style grant proposal for cancer biology right now is such a challenge. I must have read 100+ papers the last couple of days and let me tell you, I honestly don't know a thing about any of these topics! I know nothing about hepatitis B, I really don't even know anything about microbiology. I know nothing about DNA repair, and I spent so much time trying to figure out ubiquitination. I know nothing about histone modifications and I know much less about cell cyle regulation than I should.
I suppose it's been kind of a nice feeling. In every paper I learn something new. For example, did you know that the ubiquitin system has really only been discovered in the last 10 years? The DDB1-CUL4 complex which was disocvered within the last 5 and seems to be a super hot topic right now. Super hot as in multiple papers coming out around the same time all claiming to be the first to discover the same thing. It's got to be either super exciting or super stressful to be that field right now...so much work coming out, but so many people to compete with...what you know one day changes the next. To think about it, except for writing research progress reports and my senior thesis, I've never really written anything scientific before. My undergrad bio classes were all tests...explain this, explain that, but never put anything together. So back to this project. To explain something you knew nothing about just last week and to all of a sudden pretend that you're an expert in the field...that's hard. Remember back in high school when you felt like you knew everything and then in college you realized you knew nothing? It's the exact same feeling again. So many times I felt like a smart-ass just because I aced all my Berkeley bio classes (okay, not all of them...certainly didn't ace p-chem) and did 3 years of undergraduate research, but honestly, I hardly knew anything. So maybe it's a good thing I'm being forced to expand my view. Maybe now I'll understand a talk about viruses or DNA repair a little bit more or be able to carry on a more intelligent conversation with someone in these fields sometime in the future. That ain't such a bad thing, eh? Saturday, November 18, 2006
And Los Angeles is burning?
Dude, the high here tomorrow is 87! I've forgotten about the beautiful LA weather after living in the cold cold northern California winters the last couple of years.
Go Bears!
Watching the Cal USC game on my (okay fine, my parents') new 42 inch LCD...=)
Thursday, November 09, 2006
Happy Chickens!
Dinosaur comics is the greatest! The latest strip is how the problem of vandalism on wikipedia can be solved by simply vandalizing one article instead of all articles...the chicken article! So I went to the wikipedia discussion page on chickens and apprentely there's been some vandalism already. One of the posts:
'Anybody read this? "Chickens are carnivores and will feed on small children, and even large mammals like giraffes, if they can get them. Domestic chickens are capable of flying for long distances. Chickens will sometimes fly simply in order to explore their surroundings, but will especially fly in an attempt to attack when they are hungry." Sounds fishy to me' Really? Sounds like cold hard fact to me! Tuesday, November 07, 2006
I have a new boyfriend
His initials are N.S.F. and he's needy and abusive. I'm ending the relationship at 5pm tomorrow...maybe earlier.
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