Oh, the nostalgia. I stuck my number on trillian this afternoon and my profile still listed me in OR, so I guess that dates it as not being used for a decade.
Gosh, that just makes it seem even more sad, but you know it’s never good when you’re making a game for like 7 years and never show anything.
One benefit of going through your music to set up a new mp3 player is being reminded of how much I want to put MY BALLS ON YOUR CHIN.
Single albums are for pussies and grandpas, and I think you know it.
So I had to write a bio..
about my time at YSU since I’m apparently the featured student for the biology newsletter. Thought I’d post the unedited version for posterity before I turned it in. Well, I did self edit the line about playing god with an untold amount of lives, but let’s face it, that’s the real reason I’m a microbiologist.
My time at YSU has probably been a little different than most. I started in ’99 and was originally a computer science major, but dropped out two years later mostly due to lack of interest and personal grounding. After numerous misadventures, I returned in ’08, definitely older and perhaps a little wiser, majored in biology and managed to claw and scrape my way back to a 3.0 gpa before graduating in the fall of 2011. Over a year was spent doing undergraduate research in Dr. Johnston’s lab where I learned the ins and outs of working with anaerobic microorganisms in general and sulfate reducing bacteria in particular. Being able to work with SRBs landed me a job with Bioremedial Technologies Inc. because they were interested in branching out their business to treat the numerous acid mine drainage sites that pollute the area. A deal is currently being negotiated between YSU and BRT in the hopes of getting to continue both my large scale culture work as well as my education. I enjoy the work that do, even if it has subjected me to a host of terrible smells. For all the kids out there that want to do science, my advice would be to find a lab and work in it, because being able to pass a lecture course is an infinitesimally small piece of the picture.
I’m pretty sure I hate writing about me slightly more than the crap they had on those gre writing prompts, but not by much.
Mirror mirror on the wall, who’s the most puerile of them all? This guy right here. I might even break 10k mana if I got some non-shitty rings!
The Lucifer’s magic that makes you numb
So I guess the spring semester is over, not that I really noticed since my only class has been over for a month. My time at the university has mostly been full of various molecular crap: extractions, pcr, cloning and the like. I’m supposed to get a 96 well plate load of DNA sequence sometime this week to work my bioinformatic magic on. While I am somewhat curious as to what bacteria are present in my cultures, I do have to admit I’m much more interested in seeing if the amd treatment works or not. My 1650 gallons of culture should be getting shipped off to West Virginia in the next couple of weeks. Ahh, to think, they were only a liter in January. Turnaround on scale-ups should be a lot quicker now since I’ve got a good stock of most of the chemicals and whatnot now.
I imagine I will also know if YSU and my company come to some sort of agreement soon. I’m just hoping to keep my job and get a tuition waiver, anything on top of that is bonus. While I am interested in the thought of obtaining a phd, I can’t say I have any desire to teach. I’d rather, you know, actually do science. I’ve registered for full time in the fall and I’m taking Advanced Bioinformatics, Gene Manipulation, the entrance seminar thing and whatever the class is called where you’re supposed to write your literature review and get it approved by your faculty advisor. Hoping to get the actual work for the literature review thing out of the way this summer. Does feel kinda weird that 9 hours is full time now.
I’m also still stuck working on an abstract for a conference in Denmark, which I’m pretty sure there’s no way YSU is going to cover enough for me to be able to afford to go. 800 hundo a month ain’t exactly European vacation money. Hell, I don’t even have a passport. I suppose I should have raised that concern earlier. Not to say I couldn’t use the vacation, but I certainly do have more practical matters to consider for the time being, like having my own car again.
