What are your biggest concerns/worries for this new school year?
08-30-2009 at 07:45 AM
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Took Russian classes?
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I'm Bulgarian; fairly similar languages. 
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08-30-2009 at 09:45 AM
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1) Being bored.
Boredom leads to procrastination for me.
2) Not having anyone to kill the creepy crawlies in my place like in previous years.
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08-30-2009 at 11:34 AM
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Originally Posted by lorend
1) Being bored.
Boredom leads to procrastination for me.
2) Not having anyone to kill the creepy crawlies in my place like in previous years.
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I can't believe I forgot about the bugs. I didn't find one in my rez room all year (which I was extremely happy about XD) but I think it'll be a different situation living in the basement of a house.
Spiders are scawy. :(
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Mathematically it makes about as much sense as (pineapple)$$*cucumbe r*.
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08-30-2009 at 12:32 PM
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I'm Bulgarian; fairly similar languages. |
From what part of Bulgaria do you or your family originate? |
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08-30-2009 at 02:44 PM
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From what part of Bulgaria do you or your family originate?
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Sofia.
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08-30-2009 at 08:55 PM
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Speaking of Russian classes... first year russian is a guaranteed A+ if you atleast speak a little bit..
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Thanks for the suggestion but it was full by the time I got to Solar. Sucks...
Which brings me to my next concern for the future.. not being able to take courses that I want/need. |
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08-30-2009 at 09:02 PM
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1. Not having enough money for school.
2. Not being able to figure out what program I want to go into at the end of the year.
3. Living on my own, away from parents.
4. Living with people I don't know.
5. That I might not do well in my classes.
6. Not making new friends.
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08-30-2009 at 09:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Serps
Thanks for the suggestion but it was full by the time I got to Solar. Sucks...
Which brings me to my next concern for the future.. not being able to take courses that I want/need.
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Happened to me for both first and now 2nd year. You literally have to log on Solar as soon as it opens up to get the electives you want. >_< Especially first year language courses.
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08-30-2009 at 09:06 PM
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Sofia. |
It is nice to see others from the Balkans at McMaster. I always thought that you were likely Russian, Bulgarian, or Macedonian (like myself). Turns out I was right.
Have you ever been to Plovdiv? If so, do you recommend it? I am thinking about going there next time I go that way. |
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08-30-2009 at 09:16 PM
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Having no results for my thesis ;__;
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08-30-2009 at 09:24 PM
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Having no results for my thesis ;__;
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As in nothing at all happens? Is that even possible?
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08-30-2009 at 09:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Goce
It is nice to see others from the Balkans at McMaster. I always thought that you were likely Russian, Bulgarian, or Macedonian (like myself). Turns out I was right.
Have you ever been to Plovdiv? If so, do you recommend it? I am thinking about going there next time I go that way.
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I've been to Plovdiv twice. It's really pretty and nice. I'd recommend you spend some time there, I'm sure you'd really like it.
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08-30-2009 at 09:57 PM
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As in nothing at all happens? Is that even possible?
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It depends on the project.
Right now, for my summer project, my methyltransferase activity isn't working out (DPM is way too low). We ordered new 3H-SAM, hopefully it'll be in by Monday so I can have results by Friday. Thankfully I have results with respect to gene specific methylation.
It's definitely possible for results to be unexpected or experiments to not function properly. It took 2 months for my cells to grow, normally it takes about a week until you get a confluent dish :\. Things happen sometimes that are out of your control. |
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08-30-2009 at 10:01 PM
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It depends on the project.
Right now, for my summer project, my methyltransferase activity isn't working out (DPM is way too low). We ordered new 3H-SAM, hopefully it'll be in by Monday so I can have results by Friday. Thankfully I have results with respect to gene specific methylation.
It's definitely possible for results to be unexpected or experiments to not function properly. It took 2 months for my cells to grow, normally it takes about a week until you get a confluent dish :\. Things happen sometimes that are out of your control.
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Sounds... interesting XD.
Unexpected results are still results though, probably the most interesting results.
But yeah, the problem with the cell growth is definitely annoying... 2 months o.O
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08-30-2009 at 10:58 PM
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Sounds... interesting XD.
Unexpected results are still results though, probably the most interesting results.
But yeah, the problem with the cell growth is definitely annoying... 2 months o.O
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Haha, I think I mentioned that earlier about the unexpected results or rather, I stole that from O'Donnell. But, no results is kind of different from unexpected data. I know my technique is excellent since I've done MTase assays before, but I think the solutions are expired - but the tech was hesitant to purchase new stock :|
Yeah, I pretty much sat around and did nothing for most of the time - I'd much rather be working. Then I finished one of my major projects in about 1.5 months, though I'm still working on a creating a primer for the estrogen receptor (the last four kind of failed). |
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