In light of yesterday's news, the wonderful email I got today from Research Advisor telling me how she nominated me for the award*, and how I rocked out at work today**, I decided I should get a little treat. In fact, I got myself the treat of all treats: I had ice cream for dinner. Actually, it was a chocolate malt from 31 Flavors. YUM.
*I feel I should seriously savor this because it's not too often that you get praise in this business. I'm sharing it with you not to brag, but because I think it's unfair when people want you to listen to all the bad things that happen but then don't share the good things. And this is "The Happy Scientist", after all :)
** I got back on track with the paper rewrite. I really focused on it this morning and made some headway reorganizing the discussion. I Then spent the afternoon in the lab and it was going so well that I decided to stay to do more samples. I feel really good about my progress today, which is much more than I can say for any other day this week.
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- I am a 6th year PhD student in the earth/life sciences. While I love science as a vocation and intellectual pursuit, I get frustrated with what it means to have a job as a scientist, especially as a woman. I am freaked out by my impending two-body problem and being a scientist with children someday. I am an advocate of lowering what we expect one person to do together with really working while at work so that 40-45 hours of it is sufficient. Enough is as good as a feast!
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6 comments:
Congratulations! You deserve to savour this award. Enjoy the recognition, and practice letting it sink in: it is usually much easier to internalize negative feedback than positive.
Congratulations on the award!! And I too like it when people share good news on their blogs.
Congratulations on the award! And that sounds like a really tasty dinner ;)
Mh, ice cream for dinner! I never thought of that, but it sounds like a real treat!!
And yes, good news should be mentionned!
congrats! and omg, i so want ice cream now...
Good for you! And never apologise or explain yourself when sharing good news!
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