Well this week (so far) has been two words- an experience. No it's not because I've wiped my backside for the first time by myself, done any thing to scream and shout about, simply that I've started my Master's thesis. Again, to reiterate, this is more boring than watching paint dry to some, but already I've learned a lot.The techniques and such are a student's worst nightmare as they are actually used in 'real life'...ahh, scary thought I know, haha. With any new job/experience, I feel like a lost sheep, just wandering around, trying to get my head around what the hell is going on. Now when I'm trying to calculate what size restriction fragments I get when using EcoR1 endonuclease from a novel platypus granzyme sequence, whilst putting it in to the context of what I'm actually trying to do, yes the feeling is very much that I'm värdelös or useless in my native tongue.
But I'm not alone....meeting up with fellow Masters students who like me have started their projects this week, we can all sit there and laugh at ourselves for feeling like absolute muppets. I mean thank god my supervisor allows me to ask him 'stupid questions' with out fear of reprisal.
Ok, enough about that. I guess we all feel like newbies sometimes, I even used the wrong sellotape in my log book for feck sake!! However, if things have started this strong I'm going to learn a lot, and that can only be a good thing. I guess this challenge is actually something (that although at the time potentially sucks) I really do want. At the end of every new experience that really does take vast amounts of mental thought, I know I feel good. This goes for physical aspects too: not enough people experience that gym feeling when you've spanked it and feel like dying, yet somehow very satisfied.
On a somewhat different subject, we get our new flat keys tomorrow! It's always funny explaining to someone we are actually moving 2 floors down, note this is NOT a good band name, Mr Thorpe senior. I can't wait for a place to call our own, so in about 15 hours, this time will come!! Not much else to say, just got to try and stop Johanna getting booed off guitar hero- some things are indeed impossible.....
