Friday, March 31, 2006

Why grad students are never bored...

Not only is there so much that needs doing, but there's such a wide variety of it. For example, this past week I ended up doing: plumbing, making figures, attempting to interpret gels and beta-gal assays. That's in addition to the usual problems that come with working with computers most of the time (problems with data file formats; programs either not compiling or failing in bizarre ways).

My big achievement signpost this week: I have now broken every program that I've used for my data processing. With the exception of the most recent one (which I haven't fixed yet) and one program that's only distributed as a binary, I've had to debug everything.

All part of a biology education...
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