Weekly Seminar
The Lab’s weekly seminar is as important as your BF or your GF’s birthday….wasurenai de kudasai! Everyone takes his or her turn in giving the talk, either a chosen paper related to your study or presenting the recent results you obtained. Giving a talk regarding a paper, I think, is the easiest as you c
riticize other people’s work and keeping in mind the blunders that you should avoid doing in your own research….Presenting your research results is a bit challenging- you get to know your research’s strengths (and weaknesses) and others get to know them as well (the challenging part…=) ). Sometimes it is better to discuss it with your own adviser, as you get the directions you desperately need when you are kind of lost..but to get them from your peers is another thing. A comment made by someone you know who is knowledgeable about the subject matter and knows “science” is a “welcome remarks”…getting them from those who believe they know better than you are triggers an emotion akin to those that the main character of the Cask of Amontillado uttered in the 1st paragraph of the story. And I wish I can do the same as he did! Sweet revenge!
Tomorrow is one of my seminars on my research’s recent results and I wonder how it would turn out to be. I am looking forward though to my adviser’s comments and guidance so I can move on to the more interesting part…proteomics!
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