Ok so... I passed my prelims!
I've been sitting on my bum all of "spring break" writing the prelim grant proposal, and I had to give a public seminar and the private defense with my committee today. Most of the questions were quite valid (controls, interpreting results, pitfalls, alternatives), and there were a few weird ones thrown in as well... like why the authors of a particular paper didn't examine gene expression past a specific stage (really no answer to this one...)
I'm just glad it's over with; it now means I can stay here and continue to torture the undergrads I teach, oops.. I mean, stay here and continue doing research.
So now the next few steps would be trying to get back to the "doing labwork" mindset, as well as thinking on who should be on my thesis committee and of course, writing test questions for that upcoming Devo Lab exam...
YAY!
