I went to Roger Tsien's presentation (he gave the nobel-laureate presentation on campus today), and that was one of the pieces of advise he gave to future scientists (read: students). There were loads of people there and I didn't get out of lab early enough to get a seat, and so had to stand (with loads of other people -- we were a mob, albeit mostly a very organized, geeky mob) for the entire hour. Roger, being Roger, looked around and wryly commented that he didn't expect this many people to come since this was almost exactly the same lecture he gave every year to about 20 grad students in the florescent protein class, but now that some "Swede had sprinkled fairy dust" on him, it seems to be much more popular.
Needless to say, he was quite an engaging speaker (and also responsible for the glowy protein that I imaged this morning, in addition to naming the other glowy proteins "mCherry" and "mTangerine" &c instead of something like ASDF651389) (he claimed to have gotten the color-name inspirations from Crayola).
(It's also hard to get the "zmg nobel-prize winner" attitude when the guy's just the crazy PI from the lab next door.) (Literally -- my current lab is next door to his.)
I also saw the people from my previous lab rotation there (who also came too late for a seat, so we stood together), which was nice. My new lab still appears to be organized chaos to me. To the best of my knowledge, no one there went to the event.
The boot lace from my favorite pairs of boots broke. I think this may be the first time, for me, when the shoes lasted longer than the laces. I need to get new shoe laces. I wonder if they sell that separately?
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