Pokemon Master!

Do you see this? That is right! It's the badge from my second conference. I feel like I'm Ash Ketchum... Without the intense awesome battles or the really cool creatures to fight for me or the team of loyal and awesome friends and.... whatever. The point is... I went to another conference and this on was way more high profile and the talks were way more interesting than the last, which was expected. It was 3 days of intense talks and I learned more in those 3 days than I probably would've reading 50 papers on the various topics presented on. I don't really do cancer research and not much epigenetics, so this was a great learning experience for me.

 I also met a few people, including a man who worked for Genetech as a researcher and we chatted for a while. It was interesting and it pushed me a little bit more towards the idea of going into industry after Grad School. It's not like I'm in a rush though... I have a lot of time to decide.

 I also have to condense all of those talks into a mini-presentation for my lab mates. Woo hoo. It's weird that spell check still doesn't recognize the word epigenetics. Get with it, spell check.

Oh, since I've been lazy in posting and we're talking about it, I became a member of the AACR. Also, I took a picture of my breakfast for the first day of the conference because I'm cool and hipster and that's how I role.

Random spoiler for next post,"Things That Should Have Something in Them, but Don't".

You're welcome.