July 25 - 14 months to go!
Short post this week because I'm trying to organize figures for my thesis, which as of July 25 is due in 14 months!
That's right - I have 14 months left of funding for my PhD.
This is...amazing? terrifying? still pretty far away?
I’m struggling to find motivation at the moment:
- The company that makes the vaccine I’m producing has gone out of business
- An experiment I’ve done several times before isn’t working
- I haven’t the slightest idea how to throw together all of the work I’ve done over the last two years into a cohesive story
But there are a few things keeping me going:
- I work with a team of inquisitive undergrads
- I’m excited to teach again this autumn
- I’ve got lots of data even if it doesn’t make sense...
I know it will all happen in the end - just probably not the way I imagine it will. I think that's the toughest thing for me: learning to accept the parts of this process that I cannot control. Some things - good and bad - are just going to happen and the skills that I build to deal with those situations are part of what will make me a better researcher. I'm simultaneous scared and thrilled.
And have I mentioned I can't wait to be done?
