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My supervisor is Chinese. A really nice lady, but her group works really closely with a group from Nanjing (that's in China, if you didn't guess). We have a visiting professor from there who's here till January, and he doesn't really do the whole English thing very well. Basically whenever him, my supervisor and I are in a room together the two chinese just speak chinese to each other which is fucking ridiculously annoying.
Anyway. I was supposed to start work last Monday, except she was in China until mid Thursday so I didn't actually get to talk to her till Friday. Then she says "I'll send you some references" and I don't her anything until 11:55 on Monday saying "Can you drop by this morning, btw I won't be available after 12".
I fucking sprint to her office (I was on campus anyway) and she's on the phone. When she finally gets out of her Chinese shouting match (pretty much every chinese conversation) she finally describes my project to me and emails me the reference. The reference is a lit review that's 45 pages long, and that's a lot even by academic standards. I've finally managed to finish reading it, and see absolutely no relation to what she wants me to do. I even cross referenced a pubchem search for what she wants me to do with the references in the review and I don't get any hits. Like does she want me to blindly do things and hope I find some sort of correlation?
Also, I'm a computational chemist. Basically I use maths and CS to develop new ways of modelling the active sites of proteins.
With that in mind, guess what I don't have in labs......... A computer. I don't even need a decent computer, I just need a non-networked (i.e. don't sign in to my uni account) linux-based machine that's at least hooked up to the internal uni network so I can use the supercomputers.
The best bit about this is that that's actually a relatively smooth entry into a research group haha
.Rybak.I fucking hate this guy in my astronomy lecture. He doesnt shut the fuck up with his stupid fucking comments that arent even relevant.
Well at least someone in yours likes to talk. My professor asks a lot of questions and out of 70 people I seriously am the only one who ever answers any of them. And that's normally after an awkward 30 second pause. I know it's a Monday night class and people would rather be doing something else but come on!
Yaaaay nothing like spending all day studying only to get absofuckinglutely nowhere -______-
felt like I crossed my ts and dotted my eyes but wow, that was abysmal. I fucking hate any sort of math. God bless any of you majoring in such a god-awful subject.
JustGoWithItWell at least someone in yours likes to talk. My professor asks a lot of questions and out of 70 people I seriously am the only one who ever answers any of them. And that's normally after an awkward 30 second pause. I know it's a Monday night class and people would rather be doing something else but come on!
Literally my experince in lecture, I always try to keep quiet to give somebody else the chance, but nobody ever ends up saying shit, so I just answer them myself
DeebieSkeebiesNervous as fuck about this internship interview process, and it just dawned on me I don't have any nice clothes .
Don't worry about it. Wear a collared shirt, khaki pants (WITH A BELT), and some decent shoes and you are set. It is much better to go with an outfit that is properly fitted than it is in an ill-fitting suit. I didn't buy my first suit until after I had my first interview and I haven't worn it once to work yet and I work in the financial world.
thanks for the input, friends. its a condo/vacation home-style branch of a very reknowned skier-only resort in the surrounding area which i will not name, so im kind of like worried about dressing to impress. i got a few nice shirts, khakis, and need some decent shoes because idk how much they would want to see scuffed up dirty OG vans lol
its like an excited nervousness, like youre about to drop into something gnarly. been trying to land this thing for nearly a year now and im quite anxious to see what comes about. basically like a full-time job with a few days off allowing me to get some solid work experience and still be able to go study and maybe even rip some laps mid week. very chyll.
Just got admitted to University of Utah and transferring from Utah State University. See most of the peeps on here in the spring! Time for some drinks to celebrate.
Just as the legend says that every time we play against this one team at their school the refs suck, very true. Both called offsides with at least 1 player from the other team in front of us and then they called fouls on us for basically getting pushed by the other team, the nhiaa need to hire some new refs all of the fucking suck
d00dJust got admitted to University of Utah and transferring from Utah State University. See most of the peeps on here in the spring! Time for some drinks to celebrate.
Does anyone know any good YouTube channels or other sites that have solid overview videos of cell biology? I'm really just looking for something I can watch before reading the actual text so I can understand what I'm reading a bit better.
JustGoWithItDoes anyone know any good YouTube channels or other sites that have solid overview videos of cell biology? I'm really just looking for something I can watch before reading the actual text so I can understand what I'm reading a bit better.
Adderall is truly amazing in the way it effects me. Id be a straight A student if I was perscribed no doubt. I hate the grinding teeth and no appetite, and as a skinny kid that would not work in my favor. But fuck, I love this shit every once and a while.
I think I just creeped out this girl across the way from me cuz I was jamming hard to some Grand Funk and was grinning at one of my favorite guitar solos.
DeebieSkeebiesI think I just creeped out this girl across the way from me cuz I was jamming hard to some Grand Funk and was grinning at one of my favorite guitar solos.
You need to just play it off. Blow her a seductive kiss then lick your lips.
There will never be a time in my life where I hear everclear on the radio and not get extremely excited. I. Love. That. Band.
And nothing feels better than interviewing at your dream school, emailing the interviewer to say thank you for your time and getting an email back that ends with "see you next semester :)" this day just couldn't get better. Of course it's not a definite but it's definitely a good sign
literally have not done a single thing at work for the past 3 days. 27 hours of wasted life, but at least I'm getting paid I guess. Pretty weird feeling knowing I'm quitting in a month anyways lol. They gonna be pissed
My girlfriend is moving in with me, I'm sorta nervous cause I love the shit out of this woman, I don't want to mess things up. But I know this is important. I'm flying home in a week to go get her and drive across the country together. Shits getting real.
I got a $120 ticket and my Mom is making me go to traffic school so her insurance doesn't go up. I make $50 a week so I'm just going to work to pay off a ticket, no extra money... I wanted to save to take a trip to Colorado, but that won't happen now...
