Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Interdepartmental Trekking
Today I went for quite a random wander around another department for help with a specific technique I wanted to try and was thrilled to find such useful helpful people. One of the advantages of my workplace is that it is HUGE so that there is about every technique and piece of equipment I could dream of using. Unfortunately as it is so big it's hard to keep track of what different people are doing and that people often have no idea what other people in the same department are up to. I'm really glad I went trekking off on my own to seek out other people for this method as I got some really helpful tips and information which I would never have got from reading books or journal articles and the chats with the helpful people have made me rethink some of my current ideas into some more practical experiments that are more likely to give me data. Although there is lots of stuff I could do, I'm more and more aware of how little time I have left until my contract is up so now I am definitely more interested in the less innovative and unusual stuff and more interested in stuff that is more certain to give me results to write up into a paper.
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