Celebrate with me!!! - Orchid Board

vmax3000 · #1 05-02-2008, 10:09 AM

My research group just published our first article! It wouldn't be anything I would force anyone to read, but it will be coming out in a future edition of Physics Letters A and..... I am first author....

!!! It was accepted without revision, which I assume means that our use of the language was clear enough and our science was sound. Anyway, just another day in the life of a grad student. I will escape the hub bub and spend some time with the 'chids. I have been on a repotting tear...of course, it's a bit of a distraction from working on my research proposal

, but at least it's productive, right??

cb977 · #2 05-02-2008, 10:12 AM

Congratulation Vanessa! That is wonderful!!!
You must be so proud...and deservedly so

Vanessa

kavanaru · #3 05-02-2008, 10:49 AM

Hey Vanessa, CONGRATULATIONS

It is always great to have a new paper bublished! I still remember when I did my first paper (nothing I would recommend to read either

and it had two review rounds

)

keep so...

Tindomul · #4 05-02-2008, 11:31 AM

Oh wow! CONGRATULATIONS!!! I hope I get to publish some day. But right now, it seems so far away.
Are you doing a PhD in Physics?

Royal · #5 05-02-2008, 11:55 AM

Kudos!

vmax3000 · #6 05-02-2008, 09:04 PM

Thanks for the good wishes! I am working on a Ph.D. in Chemical Physics

or Physical Chemistry....a combination that makes most folks recoil in horror as they recall lousy TAs and professors with incomprehensible lectures! I know as I have become a receiver of many a confession! And I confess, I still don't know quite what I'm doing, but it's getting more comfortable to feel that way

!! My 'chids are my link back to sanity and serenity, though. Oh, wait, not supposed to talk about them in this thread.....

kavanaru · #7 05-03-2008, 03:29 AM

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Originally Posted by vmax3000

My 'chids are my link back to sanity and serenity, though.

are you sure about that????

my friends think I am insane because of my chids....

Dorothy · #8 05-03-2008, 08:50 AM

A big Congrats

Vanessa
It's an honor having you here as a member .. you make us all proud

and Thank God for orchids .. I know they help 'ground' me

vmax3000 · #9 05-03-2008, 11:24 AM

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Originally Posted by kavanaru

are you sure about that????

my friends think I am insane because of my chids....

To paraphrase someone I admire (forgive me...), it's all relative

. I noticed that you are in Switzerland. My adviser wants me to work for a professor at the University of Basel as a post doc! I would love to, but.....what to do with the chids, family, pets. It's far from my stomping grounds. My language skills in French are probably good enough to get me beat up and my German...well, what German speaking skills??? There it is. Although, as an orchid grower, I have watched them recover from my attempts at waterboarding or imitating desert clims, so miracles do happen, right?

kavanaru · #10 05-03-2008, 11:48 AM

that's fine, you bring the orchids and give them to me

as for language... don't panic... Basel is so international (thanks to Roche and Novartis

) that you really don't need german. French can help, but english is the most spoken language. I have many colleagues who only speak english and live here since years!!!

The weather in basel is very nice, and good for the orchids too

if you have the chance to come to Basel for a post doc.. . DO IT!!! a great experience