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Boro_Bandito:
--- Quote from: Scrambled Egg Machine on 03 Feb 2009, 13:40 ---I'm about to turn 18, and have been accepted to Texas Tech University. I will major in Biochemistry, and I think Neal Stephenson is one of the better writers out there.
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Dude, Lubbock's my home town! o/
Also, My name is Phil Boelsche, I'm a junior at Towson University in Maryland, and I'm a Film major/Creative Writing minor. I joined up with the forums my freshman year of college in fall of 06, was a really weak poster for the most part but hopefully I've grown on people enough by this point.
I'm 20 years old, turning 21 at the end of this semester, and I'm really starting to worry about just what the heck will I be able to do with my degree. When I signed up for it at first, it was really just an Arbitrary thing, I didn't have any idea of what to do with my life at that point (still don't) and so just picked something off of the towson websites list of majors that didn't sound like it would bore me to death, took a couple classes, stuck around. I think I actually want to write, and more or less I want to write a little bit of everything. When I was a kid I would read every book that I saw and as a result I've always had the sort of vocabulary and in-brain archive of trivial information about a lot of subjects that tends to make other people label me as a know-it-all, which is true to some extent. I was a bit of a drifter back in high school, and even now I tend to only stick with relationships with other people out of convenience(aka proximity) so since I commute I really only have a couple friends that I hand out with at all. Basically the reason I turned to the internet. I've managed to meet a lot of really cool people on these forums and its really been a community that I could feel a part of, and while I don't post all that often this is pretty much the first place I check everyday to see what everyone's been saying/up to.
Originally I wanted to go to school for Game Design, but most of the places that offer it just don't really seem all that trustworthy, especially since its such a new field that my parents just downright wouldn't pay for it, so I agreed to go to a four year college. I'm still really interested in games, and on top of other projects that I hope to be able to do at some point in the future such as writing novels, graphic novels, possibly movie scripts since I went ahead and took classes on scriptwriting, I also really would still like to go into game development, and there isn't a day that goes by that I don't have some idea for what might make an interesting game (at least to me).
I also really like to cook a lot in my spare time, play way too many video games, and I really really like the idea of tabletop gaming but have so far not really been able to get into it. Most of my real life friends have no interest in that type of stuff and I'm really hesitant to reach out to other hobbyists at shops or like school meet-ups or something, mainly because I'm a little leery of strangers and I'm (probably a bit hypocritically) afraid that they'll just be a bunch of weirdos.
yelley:
--- Quote from: Dire bacterium on 03 Feb 2009, 10:18 ---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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this sounds brilliant.
i am sort of a microbiologist. sort of. i do not do any exciting research though, because i am not a competitive candidate for graduate school. did you know that if you want to go to school to learn to do research, you have to have already spent years doing research? i did not know this! or i guess you have to be indian or chinese. this is what the admissions lady at the university of san francisco or whatever told me. srsly.
Reed:
Yeah, it can be really hard to get into a lot of micro grad programs. I was really lucky as an undergrad and I was hired as a research assistant in a plant molecular biology lab, where they gave me way more responsibility than I deserved. Also, the PI was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and he wrote me a glowing recommendation. If I hadn't worked there I really wouldn't have been able to get into grad school. Have you tried looking for research assitant jobs at a university? It might be a little bit of a pay decrease, but I think that grad schools would really like that kind of research experience.
What is involved in food testing anyways? Is it mostly classical microbiology, or do you use any molecular techniques (PCR screening, etc).
Radical AC:
I'm Andrew Livingstone Crawford (I always add the Livingstone to sound like a pretentious prick... It's also Livingstone as in David Livingstone, as in Doctor Livingstone I may presume, as in I'm related to him) I'm 22 and am double majoring in Biochemistry and Molecular/Cellular Biology at Boise State University. I'm hoping to get into a Ph.D/MD program at either Johns Hopkins or University of Minnesota. I want to get a surgery specialty and either an Epidemiology or Genetics Ph.D. I'm pretty much just a tall white kid from the north. (Northern MN) I can has type 1 diabetes since I was fourteen so that doesn't help with getting any less skinny. I play guitar and have my own solo project right now. (Because that says soo much about me) I also play the synth/piano, bagpipes, trumpet, trombone, and can program a mean drum beat in Logic Pro. I do a lot of relief effort/volunteer work. I wrote pretty much the entire health plan (w/ a lot of doctor consults) and epidemiological analysis for norther Sierra Leone where I'll likely be headed to help out next year. I'm trying to learn Arabic right now, and if I'm able to do all the crap I want I'll probably join Doctors Without Borders and work in Darfur when I'm out of school and in debt up to my eyeballs. (The stories are lies, I've never met a rich doctor.) Several times a month I go out shooting in the hills with my room mate, who was a Marine Recon sniper, and have gotten to the point where on a very (very) good day I can get sub MOA groupings at ~1500-2000yds. I'm also a nerd, above and beyond spelunking on internet forums. (I'm new but I think I'll stick it out here a while, my kind of place) I've seen my share of anime and like a bit of it, but don't identify with the culture. I also play DnD with my punk friends occasionally. (Less often the further out of high school I've gotten) I've grown discontent with Idaho and toy with the idea of packing up my stuff and leaving, but probably will wait until I get my undergrad degrees.
Seems like more until I read over it...
celticgeek:
All people who play the bagpipes are cool.
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