post-ring delivery festivities

A timeline of events that transpired during the past week:

Monday & Tuesday: I'm definitely using this weekend to get a good amount of this report done.

Wednesday: Huh, I spent a lot of time working on the report on Monday and Tuesday but didn't seem to accomplish nearly as much as I needed to to feel comfortable with where I am right now. It's fine though, I still have quite a bit of time.

Thursday: I'm a little freaked out. Actually really freaked out. I checked all the Comm Lab resources and appointment schedules and everyone's booked up. Let me send some panicked emails at 9 PM and hope some of the Comm Lab fellows get back to me in time.

Friday: In the most dramatic change of events, I managed to book 3 individual back-to-back appointments with Comm Lab fellows and feel a lot better about where I am right now. I'm getting feedback on a large portion of what I wrote, thanks to the gracious help of the BE Comm Lab! These Comm Lab fellows are my heroes and I still can't believe they managed to answer my late night call (I'm incredibly thankful!). All I have left at this point is to write the abstract and discussion portions, which I'll start on after I get back from ring delivery and inevitably order Chinese food at midnight.

Saturday: This is the day! Given that I finished most of the report already, I imagine today will be a breeze. (This is actually the biggest lie I've ever told myself) An actual photo of me submitting the assignment at 9:59 after re-submitting probably 3 times out of paranoia:


Right after I submitted the report, I honestly needed a moment to regain my composure (I was laying on the ground for a solid 3 minutes). I'm just really thankful that I put my best effort into the assignment and learned a lot from the experience, even if it was a stressful situation to be in. I'd say my biggest takeaway from all of this is that the BE Comm Lab is the biggest treasure and all the fellows genuinely want to help you succeed and will go out of their way to help you. I was so surprised that my desperate late-night calls for help were answered so promptly even though everyone is so busy with their own lives and work. 

And overall takeaways from the module: huge props to computational biologists who have to deal with R and RNA-seq on a daily basis. I personally was going a little bit delirious from just a few short hours of working with R but I was still happy to have gotten a taste of an important aspect of biological engineering that I probably otherwise wouldn't have been exposed to. Now onto Mod3!



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