Random Nerd Rants

Category: Work

  • Samples and memories

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    This is what’s left of my masters: a box full of samples. The picture above, which I took a few minutes ago, is from a box where I stored all samples and materials I used in my work for my masters degree. Actually, not all the materials are in the box – some of them,…

  • Three years

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    Yesterday I received word about my PhD. My grant is going to last only for 3 years, which is a considerably short time for a PhD… but, considering that this work is going to be a continuation of work I’ve done in my masters, it gets a little easier to make it happen in that…

  • Finally some good news

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    At last something good – really good – happened. My project was granted! Now I do have something official about my PhD – it’s an absolute certainty now.  Ever since I defended my masters last september everything on my life was on hold, waiting for an answer that came not too early. Sure, a lot of…

  • Master

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    I defended my masters last friday. Everything was absolutely great. In fact I was quite worried because I had a sore throat since the day before, and so there was a chance that I wouldn’t have a voice to use in my presentation. However, even though my throat didn’t get all better I was able…

  • Lack of planning

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    I hate it when people do not plan ahead. My PIXE studies for my masters are linked to other studies by other people with other objectives. A scientific initiation student from the Chemistry Institute, is one of them. She’s planning on attending a congress on thermal analysis in september, and the abstract submission deadline is…

  • Not… screwed?

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    Ok, I may have overreacted in my last post. Turns out, I’m not as screwed as I thought I was. Electron density mapping is a very complicated thing to do, and my advisor decided to leave it out of the work for now. But she did want to do it when we first talked about…

  • Oh fuck.

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    I’m screwed. Big time. I had MONTHS do to something, and I didn’t. The only excuse I have is that I don’t even know where to begin to do something like what I had to do. Anyway, I’m screwed. Big time.