The Seminars
I really liked the seminars that we had this summer in the program. It was interesting to hear what different labs around campus were doing and the seminars got me interested in a whole bunch of things. There were some seminars that I went to thinking “This seminar is going to be boring because this subject matter doesn’t interest me,” but surprisingly when the left the seminar I would be very interested in the subject matter. I thought it was really nice of the speakers to take time out of their days to talk to us and explain their research. My favorite part about the seminars was beginning of each one when the speaker would give a brief overview of how they go to where they are. Many of the speakers got to where they are in very unconventional ways by just seeing where life took them. Their stories helped me feel comfortable where I am now, not really knowing what I want to do in the future, but really being interested in a whole bunch of things. Also, the seminars were a great way to see everyone from the program since we don’t all live right next to each other!
Other news: I finished my poster! It was actually a lot of fun making the poster and at the end looking over my poster, I felt proud of what I had done this summer! And then today, I semi-retired my binder…it was getting too full from all the data from this summer…so I organized it and put a table of contents and put it on a shelf where there are binders from the early 90s. I’ll probably refer back to it a lot next semester as I continue building upon my project that I started this summer, but for now it’s accumulated dust and making believe that it is ancient. This reminds me…we are almost done…sadness. It seems like just yesterday that I got my first piece of data, new binder, and everything. But I’ve learned not to be sad that it’s over, but happy that it happened!
