chloroquine's Journal: Short introduction

I am a graduate student in molecular biology. I'm in the third year of my degree which means that I'm finally done with classes and my preliminary exam. I am now free to spend the entire weekend in lab. I try not to do that too much though.

The research life is pretty intense - I usually do a six day work week and spend about ten hours a day in lab. Some weeks are worse than others. This weekend was painful. I was here late on all three days and have little data to show for it. O fortuna, velut luna. Or something like that.

I am not hugely computer literate, but I try not to ask dumb or long questions. I feel a little out of place on this site in terms of my lack of computer and programming knowledge, but hopefully that isn't going to make life difficult.

I'm still learning the etiquette of these boards, so please bear with me while I learn.

Topics of interest to me
books - generally fiction, but I also have a soft spot for travel essays. I don't get to travel much myself, so I have to do it vicariously
molecular biology - obviously. I like gene regulation stuff.
Anime and graphic novels - I'm just getting into this. I'm female and never got to see much of this stuff while growing up. Now that I'm a little older, I've decided that I was definitely missing something way back then.
Scrabble - I still kind of suck at this, but I like playing.