I had a talk with my advisor on Friday after I gave the lab talk, which was short and went fairly well. I only talked about date from one of my two main projects, hinted on worked ongoing for the other one and for another small side project.
I had wanted to have a thesis committee meeting at the end of February but my advisor prefers to have it in April, I don't mind but it's been two years since the last one and my graduate program director is hinting that I [and others in my class/the 6th years] need to start thinking about wrapping things up with in the coming year. He also forsees me graduting in Spring of 2010 [6 months longer than the previous estimated date], he is always adding on six months for reason unknown to me. Well this should give me some extra time to do some stuff I want to do [a few non-science related internships] while I'm still getting paid and have a very flexible schedule. Now that one project is almost finished I can focus more on the second one, I want to get some data so that I can send in an abstract for a meeting in Spain this summer. The post-doc who 'stole' my project [currently hers] suggested that we go together since I worked for two and a half years on hers and my current project overlaps hers somewhat.
Well I hope to be productive this year and get stuff done, I was amazed as was my advisor of how much I had gotten done last year while I was undergoing chemo etc [which was about 5% less than my usual output]. I was proud of myself.
No comments:
Post a Comment