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Finally got some feedback from my supervisor that I’ve been waiting for! And she actually seems to like my paper [insert sigh of relief here!]… she gave me some suggested changes to work on over the weekend (which are soooo much better to work on than stupid formatting!) and we are meeting tomorrow morning to […]
I spent about 2 hours today re-formatting my paper to meet the stupid, nit-picky rules of thesis-dom. What was once “Figure 1” had to become “Figure 2.1”; margins needed to be tweaked; figures needed to be transported; references needed to be converted from numbers to names… well, they didn’t *have* to, but since I *hate* […]
When you discover a gene/protein/other cool biological thing, you get to name it. Some people choose really boring names, like interleukin-27. But others are more creative with their naming… I’m particularly fond of the following ‘cuz of their fun names: Indian hedgehog (and its friends, Desert & Sonic hedgehog) Tiggy-winkle hedgehog (obviously, I’m a fan […]
Well, I haven’t posted in a while… mainly because I haven’t worked on my thesis in a while = ((I now have a whopping 2 pages written for chapter 4). But it’s not completely my fault… I’m kinda waiting around to get comments from my supervisor on the discussion section of my paper (chapter 3) […]
The other day, I received these 14 letters in the mail: The letters are pretty much identical, telling me that the Royal Bank, to whom I owe millions of dollars and my first born in student loans, has changed some system, so all my student loans have different account numbers now. Instead of sending me […]
OK, this has nothing to do with my thesis, but it’s just damn funny. Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New ‘Intelligent Falling’ Theory.
OK, so I now have a draft of chapter 1 that I’m happy enough with to have others read. It’s been a long haul writing it (it’s over 60 pages now!) and I have been entrenched in it for so long that I can’t even see straight when I try to read it, so here’s […]
The pig “is the only species, other than human, that has a preference for alcohol” (Cudd, 2005).
I got a request for a reprint of my article from someone at Tel Aviv University in the mail today: Pretty cool, eh? I don’t think people get many reprint requests anymore (although this is my first paper, so I could be wrong) because so many universities have quite good access to the scientific literature […]
I couldn’t stand to spend another sunny day indoors, so decided to do some T.O.T.B. (thesis on the beach). Made the trek down to Wreck Beach with a pile of papers that I needed to go over to write the last section of my lit review chapter. Dave is working on a paper, so he […]