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yelley:
hey reed, what sort of microbiology are you studying?
Sox:
Something's come up, I won't be posting for a while. I gotta say though, don't stop on my account, I think you're all really interesting people! Lately people have been expressing concern over the way new people might have trouble inserting themselves into the forum community, or about how there's no niches left for them to fill. Ignore all of that. It's all bollocks. Yes, there are certain individuals that are skeptical of new blood, but they're a minority with an unfortunately loud opinion.
Read this thread and ignore usernames, avatars and post counts. Your introductions will stick, even without them. Nobody needs to worry about fitting in because they already do. I went back and read a few older threads after reading this one, I found they were more fun and interesting the second time around, after I knew who a lot more people were. A community of interesting people is way more fun than a community of strangers, so don't be strangers, y'all.
Nows I gots shit to do, thanks everybody, you've been a tolerant crowd.
Masterbainter:
Edit: I decided to be more serious.
I work overnights 4 days a week 10 hour shifts, hence me on here at these hours.
I'm generally nice in person, unless you give me a reason not to be.
I like to diffuse situations with my wit rather than my might.
That last statement is completely true lack of other person touching me.
I love snowboarding and doing things that seem extreme to others.
I am an accident waiting to happened (or as my dad would say, has happened)
mooface:
--- Quote from: Scandanavian War Machine on 02 Feb 2009, 16:16 ---i love sunsets, rainbows, puppies, unicorns, and (most importantly) kittens.
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we should be friends.
Reed:
--- Quote from: yelley on 02 Feb 2009, 22:21 ---hey reed, what sort of microbiology are you studying?
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In terms of classes and lots of studying (Just passed my general exam....YAY!) we are required to take a very broad view to microbiology. In terms of what I actually research, however, I study succinate mediated catabolite repression in Sinorhizobium meliloti. I'm working on the biochemistry side of the project right now, because our lab has gone just about as far as it can go with just genetic work. I'm also working on a side project trying to isolate novel cellulose degrading bacteria from beetle feces (don't ask me why, one day my advisor walked in and said "hey I found these beetle feces when I was chopping wood, I think it would be really cool if you could isolate some aerobic cellulose degraders from here"). I think it's all very interesting, but it seems these days that the only "sexy" microbiology is working with human pathogens, so our lab is fairly small.
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