Also A-level time is right on top of us, which means that tuitions momentarily went slightly haywire out of student panic. I now know the A-level chemistry course back-to-front, which is a bonus as I'd sort of forgotten bits of it during the course of my degree.
Anyway, the exciting news is yes I do now have a PhD lined up for next year! I have one years funding, and am trying to look for creative ways to turn it into three years funding. Naturally I am insanely excited about starting the PhD, and getting back into a lab. One thing I'll have to do is get all up to scratch on the reading list, having been out of the science scene a bit since January. Reading papers to me means blogging about papers, so stay tuned for a deluge of information about How Antibiotics Are Made along with the occasional interest paper about This Awesome Thing I've Found Bacteria Do.
And if you are neither interested nor excited in antibiotics then prepared to be deluged with me telling you why you should be :p
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Congratulations! I've always enjoyed the feel of excitement as that brand new lab notebook cracks open, wondering where its empty pages will eventually lead. Good luck with your new project. Look forward to reading about it.
I like antibiotics, bring it on! :)
Congrats on the PhD admission!
Am I reading this right?You have to seek your own funding? In Aust. the government hands out three year scholarships and the universities hand out an equivalent scholarship to those that don't get the government scholarship! Pretty much, if you want to do a PhD they will find a way.
Congrats on the placement, keep a web based lab book and we can all follow your experiments and bombard you with suggestions :)
Thanks for the congratulations. I love new lab books as well, empty pages just have so much potential - they can turn into anything :)
@James: The department has about six scholarships and lots of applications. I applied, went through the interview, and didn't succeed. So now I have a kind of bastard PhD where I'm trying to scrape together funding from all sorts of random places :p
It would have been so much easier if I'd got a scholarship, but on the other hand having to put this much effort into the funding means I'll *really* be motivated to get as much as possible out of the PhD.
Congratulations and the best of luck! I'm sure you'll do great :)
Congrats!! That is great news. Are you going to be writing about antibiotics sometimes? I've had to write about em a little and I've gotten completely sucked in. Is your project in antibiotic development? I hear that that's pretty hard stuff. Best of luck!!
Congratulations on all your hard work!
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