发信人: fabian (大红豆片), 信区: Biology
标 题: Re: Please give me some encouragement
发信站: Unknown Space - 未名空间 (Mon Dec 8 01:27:27 2003), 站内信件

maybe you should do more investigation before you change lab.
Computer science is quite different from bench work. According
to my TA experience, there are good molecular biology students
who just can't catch system biology. It's an interesting field,
but you need to know what you are getting into before you make
the change. I think knowledge in programming and probability&
statistics is most important. Programming is not that hard. Anybody
can learn it, slow and fast. But you may hate it. I know people
do. Try some introductory books and see if you enjoy those.

On the other hand, benchwork sometimes requires patience and
luck. One may have trouble in his experiment for a while, but
that doesn't mean he's bad.

【 在 cellulose (cellulose) 的大作中提到: 】
: I dreamed to do biology when I was in high school. But I was not able to get
: into Beida for a few points less than required. Then assigned to a
: second-class univeristy to study Food Engineering. But the strong love of
: biology drove me back and fortunitely I came to a best univeristy.I changed 2
: labs in the last two years, the first boss was a bad-tempered bitch. The
: second is a member in Academy of Science, so famous and airy lady that she
: never takes care of graduate students. I worked days and nights, but the
: experiments were worse and worse.Together with other reason(the complex
: relationships in the lab, there are 16 postdocs in my exo-lab).I could not
: stand any more and came out. Next semester I will join a system biology lab in
: UCSF, doing in sillico cell modeling, never need to do those stupid
: experimetns any more. But I am scared by my first 2 years experience. I do not
: feel I am good any more, my confidence is getting less and less, sometimes I
: doubt whether I can make the PhD.I do not know much programming, neither I had
: computer science classes before, I am really worried. Is there any one who had
: similar experience and sucessfully transit to bioinformatics? What aspects
: should I pay much attention to?


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