Am in lab right now. It's very quiet and very empty, which I approve since it lessens the occurrence of headache which the later lab meeting will no doubt bring up. I've a draft of my final written project almost ready to go (feel twitchy, need to look over it again before I send it in) and then it's home free...until the next quarter.
I also need to finish registering for my classes. And house clean and buy food &c but that will have to wait. I think I will just go home after the meeting today, finish doing the math for the data that the machine'll spew out, and then take a nap. Despite of the knowledge that grades don't matter in grad school (I mean, most people will not be applying to another school afterwards, yeah?) and that the 3.0 minimum GPA (scary, isn't it? If it drops any lower you get kicked out of the program) is well known amount the PIs and mostly they well interfere before we get to that point, I was still found finals week to be deeply stressful. I simply can't not take classes seriously and not go through the "OMG am I doing this right?" cycle. On one hand, it means that I'll try to do my best regardless of whether the project matters or not, which is kind of a good trait. On the other hand: stress & exhaustion! (Did not sleep well last night and felt a sudden urge to re-do the formatting for the citations!)
Nap. There needs to be a nap in the near future.
Oh and while I was sticking my plate in the qPCR machine the DNA song came up on my mp3 player (another good thing about empty lab morning on weekends -- mp3 player! Because there's no one around to talk to you) and I grinned, because perfect timing -- nothing is quite like having someone singing about guanine and cytosine to you while you're qPCRing.
I also noticed that I've developed a strange fondness of adding "ing" to whatever reactions that I'm doing to make it into a verb, despite of the fact that I know what the abbreviations stand for and adding "ing" makes no grammatical sense of whatsoever to the majority. It gives me a perverse sort of pleasure to mangle the grammar in the sciences even more.
Somewhere, out there, a grammar nazi experienced a sudden chill.
[edit 9:34]
The inevitable truth of grad school (am filling out course evaluation forms online right now, in case you're wondering what brought this one) is that the more organized courses (as in came with website and non-faculty organizers) are often less educational.
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But undergrad has the minimum gpa thing too, within majors. There are different blocks of classes in the Econ major that you're supposed to have an overall gpa in that's above 2.95, I think. Something like that.
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