i don't like writing reports... particularly progress reports or funding reports. i suspect i waste all my waking hours trying to make sense of my work and all those thousands of words i make appear on the document exist solely to be filed. but i do it for my own benefit, i keep telling meself... it's an opportunity to reflect on and consolidate what i am trying to study in my work.
so that's what's taking up my time these days... and also me trying to do crazy complicated contour plots in MATLAB... it's driving me insane... it might be my only chance to prove to my supervisor here that Fortran isn't terribly good in making graphs! maybe... just maybe.
the more i dive into my research the more i am convince that the bulk of the work is really to sort your data into suitable chunks for statistical analyses (some form of which take hours to crunch!)... i reckon you spend more time getting intimate with the matrices you create... than actually running your experiments or writing up your thesis... then again, maybe a molecular biologist would say that the experimentation takes longer than the analyses... either way, i am convinced the distribution of all that is highly skewed.
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anyways, in case you wanted something more entertaining... here's why the world is so messed up... maybe we should be more vocal of our thoughts... so that people actually hear what we want to say or feel about them... hmmm.
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