writing your first publication sucks!

[banana k]

just have to vent-- i'm SICK of my project, i'm SICK having all these findings but feeling like i don't know what they mean, i'm SICK of finding out what they mean and then trying to defend them to people who are like "well isn't that obvious?", i hate statistics and the SPSS evil nazi program that can't even cut and paste numbers without arbitrarily changing them, and i wish that i knew more about the subject i'm trying to research before i stuck my face into it and realized that i barely know enough to interpret my data! oh, and the implications of THAT are that either i'm sitting on a gold mine if info that i am too dumb to interpret, or that i designed the whole damn thing so wrong that none of it means anything at all!

man, i love mucking around in the lab and i love sitting down with other grad students and profs and kicking ideas around and gossiping about lethal components of venom, but i can't stand writing up...

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[EvoDevo]

Yes. Writing sucks. Unfortunately, the longer you stay in science the more you have to write.

Good luck.

 

[banana k]

please tell me it gets easier. tell me creativity in interpreting and defining results to other people can be a learned skill, and that i won't ALWAYS be this stuck in a rut... i loooooove the concepts i'm talking about, but i can't seem to spit them out in just the right way...

 

[lumanyika]

don't worry. like anything else in grad school if you do it long enough (and believe me you will) it becomes second nature.relax and don't over-intellectualize ****. in time you'll feel just as comfortable as you are tossing concepts around with your peers and PI.