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A colleague of my summer research professor asked him to recommend an undergrad to her, since her previous assistant had graduated last spring. He sent me, and I was hired on the spot, which I was not at all expecting. There's some administrative hoops to jump through, but I start next Thursday.

The new subject area is astrochemistry. One of the things I'll be working on is extracting miniscule amounts of amino acids from the interior of meteorites. The chemistry isn't very complicated (prof. described it as "kitchen chemistry"), but since the masses involved are so small I expect it to need exacting precision. Good thing I'll be working in the afternoon, when I'm awake.

To sum up: YAY!

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[siderea]

Yay!

[siliconshaman]

Coolness!

So, do you get to name the alien blob if it grows up and eats the lab?

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I shall name it George and keep it in the freezer! The bio department could hardly begrudge me the space (although they might get a bit miffed if it eats the cultures they're keeping on ice).

If and when the projects I work on get published, I'll be a co-author. Which is really pretty nifty for undergrad work.

[ex_oneiros673]

Congratulations!