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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