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bronwynrhNothing like a big fucking ah-hah moment.
Clay's been trying to get me to consider this possibility since before my committee meeting, but I've been buried in the quagmire of my own data. So buried that I kept dismissing his idea as unlikely.
Today, I finally opened myself up to the idea.
Ah-fucking-ha!
Of course, it means I have a lot more work to do, but that's ok. If it gets my motivation meter going, that's all right.
Clay reassured me that somebody has to be buried in the quagmire of my data (he certainly can't be) so it's ok, but I need to stop selling myself short and climb out every once in a while to look at the big picture.
He also gave me a pep talk on the paper. I keep looking at what I have written and grimacing at it. He reminded me that I'm the first studen he's had who's written her own paper, so I can't expect it or try to make it perfect. He wants to start working on it again very soon. Yay! I'm actually happy with parts of it and I hate other parts of it. *shrug* It'll all be great eventually.
Ok, back to finishing up the poster. One last modification, then off to the printer.
Edit: Nothing like telling the boss that his big idea (that ah-hah thing) really truly can't work because of x, y, and z. . . and having him agree with you! We just had a pow-wow - a much needed one, at that - during which we tried very hard to figure out what the heck could be going in this system I'm working on. You know, hypothesizing. It was great. I was clueless for some of the time, until I realized that part of why I was clueless was because what he was trying to go for really truly would not work in this case. The rest of the stuff we started to flesh out and we hope to get some help with on Friday when Trish Kiley comes to visit (she's an expert on similar sorta stuff). I'll let you know how that goes.
Anywho. . . My brain feels a little like a pretzel and I have to rework a part of my poster AGAIN. I think I'll do that tomorrow though, first thing in the morning. I'm missing Shepard Smith!! Damn Daylight Savings Time.
Clay's been trying to get me to consider this possibility since before my committee meeting, but I've been buried in the quagmire of my own data. So buried that I kept dismissing his idea as unlikely.
Today, I finally opened myself up to the idea.
Ah-fucking-ha!
Of course, it means I have a lot more work to do, but that's ok. If it gets my motivation meter going, that's all right.
Clay reassured me that somebody has to be buried in the quagmire of my data (he certainly can't be) so it's ok, but I need to stop selling myself short and climb out every once in a while to look at the big picture.
He also gave me a pep talk on the paper. I keep looking at what I have written and grimacing at it. He reminded me that I'm the first studen he's had who's written her own paper, so I can't expect it or try to make it perfect. He wants to start working on it again very soon. Yay! I'm actually happy with parts of it and I hate other parts of it. *shrug* It'll all be great eventually.
Ok, back to finishing up the poster. One last modification, then off to the printer.
Edit: Nothing like telling the boss that his big idea (that ah-hah thing) really truly can't work because of x, y, and z. . . and having him agree with you! We just had a pow-wow - a much needed one, at that - during which we tried very hard to figure out what the heck could be going in this system I'm working on. You know, hypothesizing. It was great. I was clueless for some of the time, until I realized that part of why I was clueless was because what he was trying to go for really truly would not work in this case. The rest of the stuff we started to flesh out and we hope to get some help with on Friday when Trish Kiley comes to visit (she's an expert on similar sorta stuff). I'll let you know how that goes.
Anywho. . . My brain feels a little like a pretzel and I have to rework a part of my poster AGAIN. I think I'll do that tomorrow though, first thing in the morning. I'm missing Shepard Smith!! Damn Daylight Savings Time.
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Date: April 7th, 2003 01:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: April 7th, 2003 01:57 pm (UTC)Two of my friends have used it now in a short time frame!
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Date: April 7th, 2003 06:25 pm (UTC)Good luck on getting everything accomplished!
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Date: April 7th, 2003 08:42 pm (UTC)...ah, back when I was in grad school, I used to disagree with my supervisor constantly. Mostly 'cos I thought thats what was expected of me....you know....the way forward was to push the accepted ideas.
Now, jaded and tired....I feel myself wanting to tell students 'please, just do it....ok..'
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Date: April 8th, 2003 05:46 am (UTC)Me: No Clay, my data indicates that what we have here is a large number of trees. See? Tree, tree. . . tree tree tree. . . tree . . .tree. . .
Clay: Right. Forest.
Me: No. Tree, tree. . . tree. . .
Clay: Don't you think this could maybe be a forest?
Me: I really don't think so.
*snicker* Actually, that's only how it feels sometimes. I do know my data better than he does. He ponders and ponders and thinks up different ideas, but then I'm the one who stares at my data all the time. That ah-ha moment yesterday? Well, I was finally open to listen to his idea but it bugged me the more I thought about it. I couldn't make it make sense because of one piece of data. So I went to him again to make him justify it to me. I really thought I must be stupid. Boy was I relieved to find out that I was right all along :-) Yee-haw!
I'm still going to do a lot of the in vitro work, but still. It feels so good to be right, especially when I'm wrong so often!
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Date: April 8th, 2003 08:16 am (UTC)...so its a wood then!