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I don't know if anyone can relate but I really hate it that a tiny flaw in an experiment causes weeks/months of lost time. I started my thesis the summer before jr. year but my project was just not going to happen (the idiot who sent us the "transgenic" mice I was using sent us regular wildtype animals). It took like 6 months to figure out what was going on and for my professor to get him to admit he screwed up. Then I had to start a whole new project, learning new techniques from a new post-doc from abroad but that took forever b/c it was impossible to understand his attempts at english. Then the nazi histologist in the dept. wouldn't share the cryostat, then applications took over my life...and a few weeks ago I realized half of my work was useless because something weird happened to those tissue sections I gave up my Xmas break to cut, and it affected the reporter gene I needed.
Has anyone else encountered problems like this? It sucks... I'm supposed to graduate in 3 months but am constrained by the time it takes to breed the mice for offspring and how fertile they are. So...I was thinking of just staying to finish for the first summer session (6 weeks) so I can still write a decent thesis after doing all this work BUT my degree would be granted and dated at the end of the full summer term in early August. I know schools want transcripts after you finish but was hoping that if I can't provide it until right before classes start at best (I have no idea when med school classes start or where I'm going yet) that it wouldn't be a problem. I think the MSAR mentioned every school requires a bachelor's and I don't know what their policies are or if you have to document all this by a certain date to be in the class, etc. I just don't want to get screwed into taking a year off or not being able to go anymore due to this. What would you guys do and has anyone been in this predicament where they postponed graduating until the summer for some reason or another? It really sucks b/c my thesis credit is my waiver out of some stupid experimental biology class and if I didn't go through finishing, Idk if they would try to screw me out of graduating...
Has anyone else encountered problems like this? It sucks... I'm supposed to graduate in 3 months but am constrained by the time it takes to breed the mice for offspring and how fertile they are. So...I was thinking of just staying to finish for the first summer session (6 weeks) so I can still write a decent thesis after doing all this work BUT my degree would be granted and dated at the end of the full summer term in early August. I know schools want transcripts after you finish but was hoping that if I can't provide it until right before classes start at best (I have no idea when med school classes start or where I'm going yet) that it wouldn't be a problem. I think the MSAR mentioned every school requires a bachelor's and I don't know what their policies are or if you have to document all this by a certain date to be in the class, etc. I just don't want to get screwed into taking a year off or not being able to go anymore due to this. What would you guys do and has anyone been in this predicament where they postponed graduating until the summer for some reason or another? It really sucks b/c my thesis credit is my waiver out of some stupid experimental biology class and if I didn't go through finishing, Idk if they would try to screw me out of graduating...