I am back where I started about three months ago: restless at night in Tucson. I was anxiously awaiting a new beginning of the adventure that you would take me on. Now I'm here, you've taken me on the adventure but I know that it's a never-ending one. Right now, I'm in a semicolon on the journey but this long, complicated sentence will go on.
During the past 3 months, I have been exposed to ES cell culture, primary cardiomyocyte culture, and microscopy/imaging. I have increased my technical repertoire but more important I have learned to be versatile, practical, and persistent (in the face of equipment failure and the like).
It was my fortune and joy to witness science in action halfway around the world. There was passion, there was frustration. There were similarities (basic concepts) and of course, differences (for example, the way the lab ran with subgroups working together on big projects versus working on individual ones).
So, I'm going to stop here and try to go back to bed, but one more thing: I'm forever indebted to you.
LILY
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