Saturday, June 14, 2008

I'm not the research type

Recently, I found out that I am not the type that's suitable for research.
I find it harder to get myself to go to lab. Compared to a few months ago, when going to lab is one of the happiest times of the day.
I am spending less and less time in lab each day, going down from 3 hours per day to 30 minutes per day. I guess my lab members noticed too, because whenever I walked into lab, they will look at me as if they never knew me before.
I came up with a few reasons that might have caused my dwindling interest for lab:
1. After six months, I finally realize that lab is boring, though I tried to convince Caryn that it wasn't about a few months ago.
2. My project doesn't need me to spend as much time as the other people's.
3. My professor is starting to ignore me since I am not a part of his grant-applying-project.
4. I start to realize I am more to a medicine person, since part of my professor's everyday activities include staring at other published papers and thinking of ways to either prove that they are wrong, or to come up with better results.
5. I am just plain lazy during spring.
Hopefully I can find out my true interests soon, since graduation is creeping towards me.

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1 comment:

  1. haha this week i was only in lab for like 15 mins cause all the yeast cell kena makan by mold n im too lazy to repeat the stupid experiment again n again.. ohyea im so not doin research as a career.
    orgo is killing me too.. just had my first exam thursday. draw structure of all functional group. @_@
    btw, some ppl still dunno wat they wanna do after they graduate so u're fine =D

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