Conversation with Van earlier about working on the weekend:

Van: …
what are u up to?

yo: writing
this horrible horrible proposal
i’m at about 19 pages right now
still haven’t finished my figures
blah
i can’t even imagine when its time for my actual thesis

Van: D:

yo: this is 19 pgase of single space awfullness
thesis are like 150 pgs +
YAY!

Van: yeah
haha thesisisis are crrrrrrrazy

yo: they’re like small books
horrible tortorous short stories about how people wasted their youth
doing research that no one will read about and if they’re lucky, might one day help somebody somewhere
haha, wow, that sounds so depressing when I read it back to myself
lol

Van: hahah
its ok. today is a perfect day for self loathing

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The more I see it the more realize how official the annoucement is and how I can’t back out. Scary….

http://www.bioengineering.gatech.edu/student_events/ivan_caceres.html

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While doing some reading for lab I stumbled upon some humorous statements…

It is provocative that downstream from Drosophila segmentation genes, many of which encode homeobox proteins or other transcription factors, are the cell-cell signaling genes such as dpp and hegdgehog that may define segmental boundaries.

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It is tantalizing that the vulval equivalence group, P3 to P8, is also defined by HOM-C genes and may define a similar signaling domain.

–Ruvkin 1997

I just really don’t find either statement provocative or tantalizing; but then again, maybe I just lack the passion that Gary Ruvkin has for the spatial patterning of the C. elegans nervous system.

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So as I sit here in lab at 1:30AM waiting for a experiment video to save so I can run another experiment, I remembered this XKCD comic titled “The Difference.”

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The past week has been nothing short of one grand moment after another. Since I’ve returned from Europe I’ve been busting my ass trying to catch up at work. My first five days back in the lab I cranked out 72 microfluidic devices (my first two days I spent learning how to make one haha), tested the design to make sure it worked, and redesigned my lab group’s website. Hell yAH!

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So actually the title is a little misleading. I kind of started celebrating WAY before I knew my grades for the semester; however, now having received my final grades, the partying was well deserved

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I bought my tickets to Europe this week! Its finally official, Ivan Caceres is going to Europe to backpack for 3 weeks!

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Monday – homework
Wednesday – 3 hour long cellular neuroscience test
Thursday – microfluidics and biomems project
Friday – microelectromechanical systems test

Why did I want to come to grad school again?

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So I’ve been meaning to do more volunteer work lately and have been looking for various things to participate in. For some reason I feel that this year is a great year for me to give back to the community and just something that I should be doing more of in general.

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So I was studying for my cellular neuroscience test today and stumbled upon the following page of notes while going through my past lectures: Read the rest of this entry »

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