Sophie's Socks and Stuff

Well I've been away and now I'm back. I ended up having a pretty good almost a week in Liverpool. It was lovely to be out of leeds and into another lab. I'm pretty amazed and chuffed with how much I've achieved during the nearly 3 years of my PhD. I started off as a biochemist and keen to do molecular biology stuff but as there was no one to take me through those experiments and we were waiting to get new stuff delivered from america I started on the chemistry side of the project which is what I've been doing ever since. It's been really hard but these days I think I've got a pretty good understanding of the theory and interepretation of my experiments. I found out yesterday that most of my friends think I'm really clever which has pleased me as I've always been pretty average (I always scored Bs and Cs at school and barely just scraped a 2i at university) and people with way better degrees and understanding of science think that I'm clever. Anyway this week I have finally progressed to the hardest branch of science and was working in a physics department! I can't say I really understand the physics much but it was a nice change and I got some good stuff out of it and it was lovely to work in such a friendly lab. Best of all if I can improve on the stuff I did this week I might get another paper (in a top journal) and a mini chapter for my thesis. Woo