More crystallography and research
I've gotten done the stuff I wanted to get done for my research report today so I might as well write a bit. I still have ways to go on the report but I'm hopeful I'll get it "done" before the end of next week since I have to sort of since I am then off to Ireland for a week to see family.
Loads of (or at least a few) people from my my department have been to Germany to visit this research group that does crystallography to learn from them. It has been a few years since anyone went but I've talked about their time there and it sounded sort of nice so I asked my professor whether it would be possible for me to go. This was some time last week. And now it seems I'll be going there for the whole of March next year. There is like a student apartment booked for me and everything. I'm way excited about going. I mean why would I not be since solving crystal structures is my favorite thing to do at work and there I'll get to do just that for a whole month. Besides, it seems like I'll have no project (that the university will get like something out of) till maybe/hopefully April so what better time to go. On my way back I can maybe swing by the old workplace in Germany to get started on the project and I'll then have work for the whole of next summer. I'll most likely not have much vacation next summer since I'm planning to take two weeks in February or around that time to go see my sister in Connecticut and go skiing in the Rockies. And I think I'll have enough to do with my ongoing investigations till the beginning of March so the year is all set, so too say.
Having like a deadline on stuff gives me more will to do things. Now I have two deadlines with one being in a week or so before going off to Ireland and the other the trip to Germany in March. March of course seems like a long way away but the fall will go by really fast I'm sure and I do have like two lines of investigation going on at the moment. I just need to get this old project out of the way and I can focus on the continuing stuff. I think I'm not that good at doing tons of things at the same time so having just simple goals is better. The thing of course is that in the type of research I'm doing there's a lot of sidetracks available and one could get totally lost investigating them all. But at least there is an almost limitless possibility for results. I don't see there being dead ends one could not get out of so in that manner it's loads better than some stuff other people research.
But I'm off now for some rest & relaxation or cooking & cleaning at home.
Loads of (or at least a few) people from my my department have been to Germany to visit this research group that does crystallography to learn from them. It has been a few years since anyone went but I've talked about their time there and it sounded sort of nice so I asked my professor whether it would be possible for me to go. This was some time last week. And now it seems I'll be going there for the whole of March next year. There is like a student apartment booked for me and everything. I'm way excited about going. I mean why would I not be since solving crystal structures is my favorite thing to do at work and there I'll get to do just that for a whole month. Besides, it seems like I'll have no project (that the university will get like something out of) till maybe/hopefully April so what better time to go. On my way back I can maybe swing by the old workplace in Germany to get started on the project and I'll then have work for the whole of next summer. I'll most likely not have much vacation next summer since I'm planning to take two weeks in February or around that time to go see my sister in Connecticut and go skiing in the Rockies. And I think I'll have enough to do with my ongoing investigations till the beginning of March so the year is all set, so too say.
Having like a deadline on stuff gives me more will to do things. Now I have two deadlines with one being in a week or so before going off to Ireland and the other the trip to Germany in March. March of course seems like a long way away but the fall will go by really fast I'm sure and I do have like two lines of investigation going on at the moment. I just need to get this old project out of the way and I can focus on the continuing stuff. I think I'm not that good at doing tons of things at the same time so having just simple goals is better. The thing of course is that in the type of research I'm doing there's a lot of sidetracks available and one could get totally lost investigating them all. But at least there is an almost limitless possibility for results. I don't see there being dead ends one could not get out of so in that manner it's loads better than some stuff other people research.
But I'm off now for some rest & relaxation or cooking & cleaning at home.
posted by elisa @ 15:31
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