October 17, 2006

MISCELLANEOUS WHINING

Wow, so I haven't written anything on here in a LOOONG time... I guess one upside to that is that readership is probably now down to me, James, and Colin, with maybe an occasional hit from Le Gheed, so there's basically no constraints on what I can say here, because no one else is gonna read it! Yay? Anyway. So I'm trying to get my graduate school situation figured out, and I'm slowly piecing things together. One last-minute thing I should have thought of earlier is the possibility of applying for an NSF Graduate Fellowship -- which is actually due in 3 weeks, so I doubt I'll have the time to put together any proposal with any hope of winning. Still, might be worth a shot, if I can make the time. I did have some old research ideas lying around that I could expand into a full proposal, I guess. I'm definitely applying to Harvard (systems biology) and Stanford (biophysics). Still trying to figure out where else. Probably UC San Diego (biophysics), UCLA (nanobiotechnology), and Arizona State University (whichever department affiliates with the applied nanobioscience stuff). I'm considering applying to MIT as kind of the ultimate long shot. I still would like to move to the west coast, but I'm seriously thinking about the possibility of moving to New England, if I did get into Harvard. Colin seems set on moving to NYC, and Doug lives in Brooklyn, and Isabel looks like she's set on going to DC, so I'd have friends in the same general region, at least. I know a few people out west, but really only one person I'd consider myself at all close to. I guess New England would be better than the South, although I think any part of the country would be better than the South. (I ought to see if there's anywhere I could go in Hawaii!) I would even prefer to live in Alaska than in the South. Seriously. I guess I should cross this bridge when I get to it. I found out some of the work I did a couple years back in the McEachern lab is being published! This is really cool, and should make my grad school applications look quite a bit stronger. I should be somewhat competitive for the top schools now. Woo! Fingers crossed. Time to go clock in to work... thus ranteth Pericles v. 2.0 at 11:49 AM | Permalink |