Getting ready
School starts Wednesday. I am not ready. In fact, I'd like to go to Vegas right now if possible. I turned to the cats today and said, "it's Mommy's last weekend of freedom for seven years, kids!" Uh, duh. I'm talking to the cats as if they're going to say something back, like, "if you won't be using it, then be sure to leave the wine cabinet open, Mom, remember, no opposable thumbs on us!"
I went in to work this weekend. Tomorrow I show up to work at 6 or so, then I have a medicinal chemistry exam, then I meet with my advisor, then I sit for composite photos, then we have our professionalism ceremony that lasts all afternoon. During the ceremony we get our white coats placed on us by the dean, our schmancy pins with our name and the school name that we wear for the next few years while doing field work, and then we sign the pledge to not kill anyone and do good work and get our license in four years, so help us God. After the ceremony is the big shindig for all the students; then I take the shuttle back to work and then collapse after I drive home. Rinse, repeat long days like this until winter break in late December.
Medicinal chemistry is making me more than a tad nervous; I logged on to the course website and realized that I don't remember squat about enolization, tautomerization, and the like, and I certainly can't put the stuff into context re: the human body. I would be less nervous if that was my only class, but it's one of six classes plus working twenty hours a week in a job where my role looks more and more like that of a staff scientist than that of a project coordinator. I'm excited for the post-doc to start in a few months; I'm hoping that his presence will mean more papers written from him and less stuff from me to write/research. Sadly I'll have to leave my work group eventually; I'll never qualify for my license in four years if I don't start my internship before the fourth year of my program. I'd also like to get two doctorates in seven years, and that definitely won't happen without a serious jump start into field work.
So that is what I've been up to since we got back from Florida on Wednesday night; worrying, networking, studying, and running around catching up on the orientation week that I missed. How are you?
I went in to work this weekend. Tomorrow I show up to work at 6 or so, then I have a medicinal chemistry exam, then I meet with my advisor, then I sit for composite photos, then we have our professionalism ceremony that lasts all afternoon. During the ceremony we get our white coats placed on us by the dean, our schmancy pins with our name and the school name that we wear for the next few years while doing field work, and then we sign the pledge to not kill anyone and do good work and get our license in four years, so help us God. After the ceremony is the big shindig for all the students; then I take the shuttle back to work and then collapse after I drive home. Rinse, repeat long days like this until winter break in late December.
Medicinal chemistry is making me more than a tad nervous; I logged on to the course website and realized that I don't remember squat about enolization, tautomerization, and the like, and I certainly can't put the stuff into context re: the human body. I would be less nervous if that was my only class, but it's one of six classes plus working twenty hours a week in a job where my role looks more and more like that of a staff scientist than that of a project coordinator. I'm excited for the post-doc to start in a few months; I'm hoping that his presence will mean more papers written from him and less stuff from me to write/research. Sadly I'll have to leave my work group eventually; I'll never qualify for my license in four years if I don't start my internship before the fourth year of my program. I'd also like to get two doctorates in seven years, and that definitely won't happen without a serious jump start into field work.
So that is what I've been up to since we got back from Florida on Wednesday night; worrying, networking, studying, and running around catching up on the orientation week that I missed. How are you?
2 Comments:
Oh my god, and here I am feeling sorry for myself for failing my first physiology exam. Hats off to you!
You are very kind. :-) I've always hated physiology, I'm so sorry you have to take it now. I blundered through that as best I could. Hated it and now have to take A&P this entire year. Blech. I feel your pain.
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