Any researchers here?

hey there,

im in my final year of undergrad BSc in Biochemistry, im doing my optional undergrad research project over the summer and next year with the intention of following up with a masters (and PHD if i can muster the energy). the lab is a much better learning environment than the lecture hall.

im currently in an epigenetics lab that focus’s on neuro-regenerative medicine, the project im working on is looking at how a specific chromatin remodeling complex (this is something that affects the structure and expression of DNA) affects the development of some specific cell types in the cerebellum.

i took a few linguistic courses myself as electives, very cool topic to get involved in!

Research is such a labor-intensive and lengthy process that you put yourself through for results that have the potential to mean nothing. Nonetheless, it is also a very rewarding experience and something totally your own. I’ve only had experience with super-sciency labs like optical physics and neuroscience, can you talk more about what you would be doing in your second language lab?
Would it be research with people, like psychological research?

@kidvisions, I had to research and write a 15000 word undergrad dissertation, it was the most pointless bullshit I have ever done. And it was secondary research.

I can imagine primary research like plugging rats into the national grid and measuring the response is pretty exciting (???), but seriously secondary research- finding complete shit people have written before and amalgamating it into other shit which bears no resemblance to the real world- is just time consuming and soul sapping. You Will become unwell, and you will become a hermit.

I’m preparing for a MD-PhD program. The first two years are what typical medical students go through; after that, the real fun begins.

Is anyone else on here interested in biophysics?

@conpassione,

youre talking my language.

@thekingofthenorth, eh!

How is your project going?

I have been a researcher for as long as I can remember. Currently, I am researching the effects of awesome music while being high on marijuana.

My best friend has done research on birds and lizards. Sounds interesting, but god damn is it time intensive.

@kidvisions, you allowed one hour for any researchers to respond lol.

I’m about 8 months into my first year of PhD in plant biology. My undergrad was in chemistry.

I don’t have a project set up yet, but jeewillikers does it look like I’ll be learning intensively for the next 5 years.
It will involve looking at analogues of abscisic acid and it’s appropriate receptors in Arabidopsis thaliana. At the current direction, I may simply be programming computers to look for chemicals that are similar. But its really hazy at the moment.

@ijesuschrist, PhD in plant bio. Thats rad. I wish i did that instead of getting stuck in immunology. Seems like all the researchers are science based huh?

I did do a few papers in linguistics too – but nothing i could help with

@kidvisions, A friend of mine double majored in linguistics and mathematics. He saw them both as languages, I suppose. The guy speaks 7 languages now, after learning I believe 5 of them in the 4 years of college. He’s insane.

Research done in linguistics is highly theoretical. You have to come up with ideas and propose them as possibilities, in general. Most of linguistics, or at least the most interesting part to me, is the evolution of language. How did our different languages and dialects develop? For instance Finnish is more closely related to some south eastern asian languages in structure, more so than any other european language.

Interesting!

I’m in high school right now, my sophomore year (10th year) is finishing up on the 30th of this month.

I’m not quite sure what I want to do with my life, but I have thrown around something with linguistics a lot. I’m very interested in learning foreign languages. I don’t know what I’d major in, (international relations maybe?) but if anybody could point me down a path to start learning languages, that would be great. I’m currently enrolled in a german course with decent speaking capability, but I do want to venture more into language and learn more.

If I could learn 5 languages in 4 years of college, that would be pretty amazing.

@kidvisions, is there anything in particular that you would like to know?

My focus will be on neural networks. The link below has some basic information.

http://nba.uth.tmc.edu/neuroscience/s1/introduction.html