P.C. Shannon

…away from home, anyway. I joined the Ellington Lab this week. I have a slew of computational projects stemming from my rotation project. I’m also supposed to get another wet lab project because there’s currently no funding for the computational stuff so I need to “pay the bills” somehow until new grants come in. I’m excited about it, but it’s very overwhelming. I think I was handed about twenty journal articles in the first hour, and I have yet to really sift through them. I’m still trying to get my feet under me in the lab. I’m so accustomed to the corporate world where there’s a fair amount of supervision (and also someone looking after you) that it’s a bit of a shock to be thrown in open water and forced to swim. I’m still just doggy paddling, but before too long I should find my pace.