grad school life
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Finding Balance
This last semester, the start of my second year in graduate school has been extremely challenging. I’ve had a lot of challenge in my life, but navigating new challenges, or a unique array of old ones sometimes can be very exhausting. I took a genomics class, taught two Biology 2 lab sections, and still tried to get Continue reading
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The Next Level
I have been living in Tampa for exactly one year and 3 days. On July 31, 2014 I drove from Philadelphia to Florida with my 3 cats to start a new chapter in my life. As a new year of graduate school begins, I am tentatively outlining my agenda for the coming semester. My current Continue reading
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Life @ Sea
Originally posted on Meaning Amidst Measurement: (Note: I wrote the following as a series of email messages to my family while I was conducting research during a 4-week research cruise to the deep sea hydrothermal vents in the Pacific, to give them some idea of what it’s like out there. We left shore in Manzanillo,… Continue reading
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Long Time, No Sea
Since returning from my research cruise 3 months ago, winter break has come and gone and a new semester has begun. The samples that were collected at sea with the submersible ALVIN are being stored in a -80 degree celsius freezer in the laboratory. The relationship between my advisor and I has survived the pressure Continue reading