Finally!
I’m finally through with my round of presentations!!!! My thesis committee meeting went decently well on Wednesday, and they’ve passed me on the next level, meaning that come August, I can progress to ‘fifth year’ status – whoa!!!!! How scary is that?!?! It’s so incredible that I’ve reached this point in my graduate school career – as a first year student struggling to make it through classes and choose a lab and learn technical basics and not make a fool of myself, I never really pictured myself this far along in school – it was too far out in the future to picture. Now that I’m here, it’s almost surreal, realizing that in another year or two, I could be finished with school and out in the ‘real world’ finding a job!
Now my work turns to getting some really impressive data in the next couple months, before I have to turn my focus to teaching a lecture at the end of March – which I’m a bit apprehensive about, but very excited at the same time! I mean, this is what I’m hoping to do for the rest of my career, so I’m hoping this will provide some really good experience and a chance to get better with teaching skills – plus a national conference at the end of May where I’ll present a poster of my recent work – a good place for networking and making contacts for future job searches!
All right, enough work/school related stuff – I’ve got a fun weekend planned – a girls afternoon tomorrow, then my brother is coming up to seen me Sat night and staying til Sunday sometime – yay! I haven’t really seen any of my family since the holidays, so it’ll be nice to catch up – we have a lot more fun together now that we’re both adults – I think we’re going to watch Rocky Horror Picture Show (the only time I’ve seen it before was with him too) and eat take-out and have fun! Good times! And I’m still not sure about what I’m doing for the superbowl – I’ve been invited to a couple parties, but we’ll have to see when Matthew has to leave and how dedicated I am to the game…