A little less than a month and a half before grad school starts...and the first project will be on zebrafish. Either cell fate determination or stem cells/regeneration, both in the eye. The prof says zebrafish can regain their sight (when blinded with hot copper wire) within a week.
On a totally different note, I had this dream last night, and all the elements in the dream were pointing to a need to purge my old way of thinking and to make a change in my life. I distinctly remember that during the dream I was concerned with an issue outside of grad school, something I've been trying to figure out for the past month.
I guess I'll just have to stop stalling then...
Monday, May 19, 2008
Friday, May 9, 2008
on learning
So I have to make a decision in 11 days as to where I'll be doing lab rotations this summer: it's down to zebrafish v. mice. For background info, both labs gave me a bunch of papers to read. Set 1 is on mouse development, specifically of the pituitary, and set 2 is on the zebrafish eye.
In any case, I've been trying to read these papers (plus a few more I found on fruit fly development), and I understand the gist of them, but unfortunately there are parts that go completely over my head. Basically, I don't know anything. Which makes me wonder... what were the last four years for?
Reading these papers makes me feel so incompetent. :-(
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