Friday, August 31, 2007
Compliments
My lab work is still going totally and utterly pants but I'm still plodding through and trying to be methodical and careful to try and figure out what's going on with my samples. As I've been putting the hours in the lab I've been having plenty of chats with the most junior PhD student in the lab who works for my ex-boss (my slightly more effective PhD supervisor) and it seems like the nagging and crazy encouragement and enthusiasm I have been showing him and his project has actually been helpful. I really hated being so isolated in the lab and not having anyone but my boss to ask questions or be interested in my project (and even then as soon as my boss got a visiting student, undergrad project student or anyone else in the lab I got totally ignored and forgotten about) so I have been making a real effort with him to encourage him and be interested in his project (he is doing it the hard way but I do believe in his project and think it could have some really interesting benefits and uses).
Anyway we were both in the lab yesterday and my experiment still wasn't quite behaving but I heard a little yelp of joy from the next bay for about the first time ever, usually junior is really down on his project and whinges about it lots. Anyway he had got possibly the best and most totally ace and skill results of his PhD so far which really confirm the whole idea and concept of the project. As we were chatting about these new promising results he thanked me for the interest, enthusiasm and faith I'd shown in him and his project which was really sweet. Sometimes I worried that I was maybe a bit overboard and/or out of place with my interest in him and the project but it seems not. It was even nicer to be thanked as I was feeling a bit down about everything and how I feel that I am being really supportive to all the current PhD students around me and how no one took the time to be like that during my PhD or as I am now. I am still a solitary little lab person stuck in a room on my own for large parts of the day and with no other people on the project and only my PI to talk to about data, results and experimental difficulties.
Anyway we were both in the lab yesterday and my experiment still wasn't quite behaving but I heard a little yelp of joy from the next bay for about the first time ever, usually junior is really down on his project and whinges about it lots. Anyway he had got possibly the best and most totally ace and skill results of his PhD so far which really confirm the whole idea and concept of the project. As we were chatting about these new promising results he thanked me for the interest, enthusiasm and faith I'd shown in him and his project which was really sweet. Sometimes I worried that I was maybe a bit overboard and/or out of place with my interest in him and the project but it seems not. It was even nicer to be thanked as I was feeling a bit down about everything and how I feel that I am being really supportive to all the current PhD students around me and how no one took the time to be like that during my PhD or as I am now. I am still a solitary little lab person stuck in a room on my own for large parts of the day and with no other people on the project and only my PI to talk to about data, results and experimental difficulties.
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