Graduation!

Finally finished! After four years of stupidly intense work and crazily long holidays I've finally officially finished my degree and left my university. I'm still living in the city, and odds are I'll come back for a PhD the year after next so it wasn't exactly a tearful goodbye, but I still managed to have fairly intense Moment when I scurried out the fire exit after having gone through the requisite amount of Latin for me to walk off with the actual degree.

I can now put letters after my name!

I've got around two weeks off before I start my summer project, which I am VERY much looking forward too. What with revision and the way the course works I haven't actually been in a lab since around March, which is far too long for a Lab Rat to be out of a lab for.

I also won't technically be a "lab rat" any more. I chose the name to mean "unpaid student lab worker" (it seemed vaguely funny at the time...) and now I am a fully fledged paid scientist (albeit one who is frantically looking for a job).

There will be more bacteria-related posts coming very shortly. This is just an apology-for-lack-of-science post because what with rehearsing for graduation, getting graduated, getting rascally drunk at graduation parties and looking for wedding dresses there hasn't been all that much time for bacteria.

~Lab Rat MSci(Hons) BA CANTAB :D