Dateline 3/13/06

I have entered the homestretch of my undergraduate career, and that stretch is off to a good start. I managed to combine the two main programs that I have been working on in my Sr. project together sucessfully this morning, a major milestone in my project. I can almost see the light at the end of the tunnel on this one. Also today, I had to present a paper in class that I completely forgot about. I read the paper while the Prof. was getting ready for the class and made a great presentation of it. Makes me wonder why I am preparing for the one I have to give tommorow in another class.
On a completely unrelated note, on the shuttle back from the medical center, I ran into one of the researchers from my former lab group. We got to discussing our current research and he went into this long thing about the future of technology and how far it has come in the last 20 yrs. Then he tells me about how just recently gene chip micro arays have made his work much more quick and effective than he could have imagined when he started 4 yrs ago. He even got out one of the used arrays and explained it to me. So here I am at 9 at night on a city bus getting a personal lesson on DNA microarrays (with examples) from an Iranian expat. and I start thinking: does this type of thing happen to everyone in college? I think I am really lucky to go to BU, and I am going to miss it.