So today I presented a paper at my journal club. It was more data than conclusions, and the paper was pretty redundant in using so much data to repeat the one point it made. But Lauren and I presented, Laura and I brought cookies, and our last journal club meeting ended well. I'm sad that it's come to an end, but I've learned so much from it. In combination with my research, I've learned how to read scientific papers and I've gotten much faster at it too. Also, presenting my first paper ever, it was a big learning experience on how to give scientific presentations.
Long noncoding RNAs were, are, and still will be a vague concept just because they're so new and not much is known about them, but it was a good topic to learn more on and I had an awesome environment, surrounded by all these people: Laura and Quira were our supervisors, and then Bronte, Jessica, Luke, John, Jeff, Lauren, Austin, and Joachim.
On my first day demotion, because Nick and Jobart have come and they need cubicle space and since I'm the youngest and also leaving after this week, I gave up my seat. I moved in with my mentor, sitting on a ladder stool today as I worked furiously first on my paper presentation, then on my poster. Creating a poster is hard because it's my first time and I have to start from scratch since I don't have a template. It's going to be a crazy week.
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