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@mymedgrad
For fellow grad schoolers...
How do you pick a journal you want to submit your research to? Do you know this as you are planning your experiments from the beginning or is it changed as you progress through your research?
I am getting very conflicting feedback from my mentors and colleagues...
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Lately my motivation has been dwindling. I feel like I am falling behind where I should be. I feel that trying to catch up is futile. So I sit here getting more and more discouraged about being more and more behind.
Committee meeting #6 today - wish me luck!
Self care in academia is taking time to yourself to regroup, relax, and do things you enjoy outside of school and studying. However, self care is also holding yourself accountable to your goals and dreams. This is a balance I am truly struggling with every day.
The essence of grad school is crossing one item off your to-do list, then adding five more
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Podcasts and audiobiooks get me through the monotony that is data analysis (mostly data organization). What gets you through?
Great minds think differently
When I spend time in the microscopy suite I am both literally and figuratively in the dark
I love kids they’re all like.. “when i grow up i’m gonna be an astronaut and a chef and a doctor and an olympic swimmer” like that self confidence! That drive! That optimism! Where does it go
It gets destroyed by adults not believing in you and telling you to pick a realistic career. And by society creating all these obstacles to the point that you’re too tired to try.
But they’re not really unrealistic, SOMEBODY is going to be an olympic swimmer and it might as well be you.
Actually I want to talk about this a little more than I did, because olympic swimming is incredible and works perfectly to talk about attaining goals.
I used to be a varsity swimmer, and I was damn good, but I was forced into it by my parents and completely lost my love for it and therein my drive. But in high school I was swimming against such talented swimmers like Olympic Swimmer Missy Franklin. I’ve met her, and the main difference between her and me was that I was strong but had no passion, but she was strong BECAUSE she had passion.
And I could have been good, really good, maybe even Olympic good. I even have the predisposition for it, been swimming since I was 2 years old, have a mom who was almost an olympic swimmer. Missy didn’t have either of those things, she just wanted it, loved it, had been doing it for a long time, and decided she was going to kick ass at it.
Right, that’s great and all, but I completely missed my opportunity to be an olympic swimmer, yeah? and can never achieve those dreams I had as a kid? No, not even though. There was this whole thought that female athletes peak when they’re 17 years old and lose their skills quickly after that, and male athletes peak around 19. But then Olympic Swimmer Dara Torres shows up. She was an olympic swimmer when she was 17, 21 and 25. Pretty normal age for retirement. She had a few kids. She kicked butt at being a mom.
And then at 33 years old she decides she’s bored or something gets back in shape and kicks so much ass at the trials that she lands herself on the Olympic Team ONCE AGAIN. And then 8 years later, she decides, heck I’m 41 now, no one has ever made the olympic swim team as old as I am, I want to get in shape yet again and teach these children how sports work.
And she still has the record for oldest US Olympic Swimmer, not even any men have beat out that record.
So basically what I’m saying is you could be an olympic swimmer, you really could be. And there are obviously a lot of things stopping you and trying to get in your way: your brain, society, too much chocolate cake for example. But if you really dedicate yourself to it and love it with all of your heart you could, you really could.
And lets say olympic swimming isn’t your jam? That’s cool too. There isn’t a single skill in this world that you can’t learn if you absolutely love it and want to. Any skill you want is going to take time. There are countless famous people who started learning a skill after 20, 30, 40, or even 50. Not a single person has even been president under age 35 (most likely because you’re not allowed to be, but there’s a reason for that). Whatever you want to do you’re probably going to be bad at first, and I’m talking really shitty.
Van Gogh got started in his 20′s and was thought to have no artistic talent at first and was forced to sit in the back of classrooms where the worst artists in the class sat. So yeah you’ll probably be bad, like really bad and everyone including you will think you’re bad. If you stick with it though, if you’re willing to work for years and years, if you keep loving it after all the pain it’s given you,
then you might just paint Starry Night.
#looks like there’s still time for me to learn how to draw … YES. As someone who started drawing at 35 and who always was like: ‘eh, I can’t draw a stick figure to save my life, but I would love to be able to’ this is near and dear to my heart. If you want to draw, start drawing. Keep drawing. Be shit at drawing at first. Keep it up, doodle things on scraps but also draw stuff you don’t think you can draw. Challenge yourself, you will be surprised what you can do. It will be frustrating at times, but it will also be awesome. It is SO much a matter of practice and dedication, not talent.
This applies for writing, too.
Don’t ever think for a second that it doesn’t! Want to start writing? Then write! You will get better the more you write, the more often, and you will improve, all of the time, as long as you dedicate yourself.
The worst lie we tell ourselves is “it’s too late.”
I find it so weird that age plays a part in what we think we can do. I am taking my PhD and then going to medical school and sooooooo many people comment on how old I will be when I graduate. Which is true... But I will love every second I take getting there... and I will still have at least 25 years to practice... And then you talk to them about their job/profession and they hate it... But they want me to act like they are the lucky and well-thought-out ones because they have 45 years to work at a job they hate? No thanks....
How to Finish
I drew this poster for Jon Acuff and his FINISH book tour. Big thanks to Jon for this collaboration, his book has some great ideas about how to complete creative and life goals.
Love this, but reblogging it specifically for “Get rid of secret rules.” That’s one of the most amazing illustrations—and points—I’ve ever seen.
so important especially for perfectionists who procrastinate and never finish, or even start because they set such high standards for themselves.
One of the best advise I got from my supervisors is that your PhD is not your best work, because if it is where would you go from here? A PhD is about learning, aspiring, thinking, and so much more. And you can’t be perfect at it all. Done is better than perfect. And trying is better than never starting.
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Hot take: cancer biology is just everything I learned in cell biology but when it’s acting for evil and not good
I often think about how cancer biology is embryology but instead of creating an individual it is acting against it
Actually curious, what are the connections? I’ve been reading a lot about cancer recently (my msc is about cancer, but i just started and have no cancer background, but am sooo glad i took cell biology at least! So my post was about that: everything my textbook seems to say is “this is a proliferation pathway and how it works. When this is mutated the cell grows uncontrollably. This mutation is found in 83% of X cancers”).
Ahhh I have tried to write my response like 4X but then the perfectionist in me comes out and I don’t post it because I haven’t had enough time to make it perfect.... so I’ve decided to post my imperfect and more layman’s response and science side of tumblr can help me out if anyone has anything to add or even criticize:
I would say that the most common themes from embryology that come up when looking at cancer cells are during migration and invasion. A cell that is able to migrate and invade to get to where it needs to be for proper development is a crucial trait in the embryo. Once a cell gets to where it needs to be it will turn off the genes required to migrate (those that are more mesenchymal in nature) and will turn on genes it needs to thrive in its new environment mainly to be able to divide and grow. This process is how we get limbs!
The reverse is what happens in cancer (specifically carcinoma) cells. They are epithelial and they switch on genes that allow them to migrate and move (becoming mesenchymal in a process known as epithelial to mesenchymal transition or EMT). This will allow them to migrate, intravasate, extravasate, and move into a new site. To repopulate that site however, they must yet again go under a change back to epithelial to allow them to grow and populate (known as mesenchymal to epithelial transition or MET).
Genes important in this process for both the embryo and the cancer cell include TWIST, ZEB1, SNAI2 and many others.
Yesterday a Principal Investigator from another lab asked for both my feedback and my supervisors. I got back to him first because my supervisor is on vacation. When my supervisor gave feedback I just assumed he would ignore my comments and give his own (as this is what has happened in the past) but he kept my comments!
Yesterday I took 8 different cell types from frozen.... This is the most I’ve ever cultured at one time... Wish me luck!
recover from ‘burnout’ in five steps
1. reward yourself for working so hard. take a long bath with your favourite bath bomb, take time to cook your favourite meal, paint your nails. recognise that you worked hard and it was tough and that you deserve time for yourself
2. catch up on sleep. nothing makes studying harder than being exhausted. clear your schedule and have a lie in. even if you don’t sleep late, stay in bed and enjoy a guilt-free lazy morning
3. do something fun. invite your friends over for a movie night, take your dog for a walk. remind yourself that there is more to life than textbooks and notes
4. make a plan. start getting ready to get back into study mode. make a todo list, a study schedule, and a list of your deadlines
5. organise your space. declutter your desk so you have a clean space to be productive in. tidy desk, tidy mind
start again.
Hot take: cancer biology is just everything I learned in cell biology but when it’s acting for evil and not good
I often think about how cancer biology is embryology but instead of creating an individual it is acting against it
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Data analysis in my pj’s on my couch watching netflix with my husband is my happy place
Went to a lecture this morning that was completely out of my area of expertise -- which turned out to be awesome. But the lecturer was originally from China, lived in Canada, and currently (and for the last 25 years) lived in Australia. Hearing the accent in English switch from a heavy Chinese accent to Australian was amazing.
