Research Update

This week has shown me in oh so many ways how difficult research can be, and especially how difficult it can be in a foreign country, or when you're working with 2 advisors. The wrapup:

-The lab samples from last week were thrown into the trash. Into. The. Trash.
How did this happen? I'm not exactly sure, since I escorted the laboratory man halfway to the virology lab. I guess next time I'll have to escort him the whole way. And we should outlaw "emptying the refrigerator" in hospitals. Seriously.

-My advisor decided this week that we should change our survey form. On the order of adding close to 50 questions. My other advisor thinks this will be a huge waste of our time. Ah, the life of the middleman.

- My advisor here told me this week that since the project I'm working on is a two-year effort, I won't have enough data by May to present at the annual conference. She told me I should come up with a new research question. By tomorrow.

Time to hit the drawing board.....


Addendum: 5 min after finishing this post I got an email stating that The Positive Story Project, something I've been working on at Robert Wood Johnson since 1st year, has been accepted into the 5th annual SAHARA conference in South Africa! I guess God is good, and wanted this post to be a little more balanced :) Ah the ups and downs of research.....