I am writing a post after longgggggg time especially after I entered into Ph.D.

I am writing this because I always wondered how tough it is to be scientist..

I had my first long experiment to do on friday..02/06/09

I took around 1200 readings,64 injections and it took totally 12 hrs to finish my longest experiment till now.......... with 40 mice together with me !!!!


It was a good starting experience to do this...

I would describe my work environment somewhat...

I have a very very good professor that guides me very well and understands me well too.

I learnt a lot from my 1st mentor in US under whom I was working in Temple University but I still have to learn a lot from my new mentor.

I realized it that you can only be great at your field by continuous experience and efforts to achieve something new and "innovative".

I have a helping colleage and also a 2nd mentor that I dont come into direct contact with but I know that I would be learning a lot from him too.

I changed my field and this changed a lot of things too.Now my prime responsibilities are to develop western blots,lots of animal work that include introducing transponders into their body,taking tempretures using autosensor,perfusing animals,removing brains,taking section of brain,removing striatum and nucleus accumbens from brain.

Also HPLC handling to detrmine dopamine,DOPAC concentrations.

It feels quite good to be in the field you like that I realized only after going and developing dislike to a field I entered into at Temple University.

But this is not the question for me as I am thinking of this as my transition field to enter into some business related to biotech or neuropharmacology related.

My question right now is I have entered my choice of field but after completion of Ph.D whether I would be able to enter into business field ??

However,As per the scene I am looking right now into is after you enter into research after some time you have to handle persons doing research under you rather than directly participating into it....so is it good to do that or to go into business field would be more fruitful????!!!!

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Hey, I recently took one training in order to enter into john D. Dingell VA Medical center in order to help my professor.

The training was "Rodent Surgery Training" and in this each of us had to first time try to make small incisions and than stitch the body of anesthetized rat by 3 different techniques..

1. Simple stitching using thread and curved needle
2. Stitching using special small gadget like stapler
3. Filling a small incision with bio compatible glue

It was quite good to learn that it is very difficult to handle a situation when someone's life is dependent on what you are doing..

I was not that much good in maintaining sterility and was often told to take necessary precautions otherwise I think I performed quite nice stitching.

But It did not matter at that time as all the rats were to be euthanised finally after the stitching procedures by bilateral pneumothorax procedure(by exposing lungs to outside air)

It quite often seems to me that is it justified to use such large no of animals???

But it is really necessary to help themselves and definitely the "mankind"

To afford each time to go to differnt places is quite not possible at least due to tight schedules...

I explored a "virtual reality site" that offers us to live in virtual world...


Only you have to download software and register..Beware that you do not type ur true name but only any name...

At least some of us can meet together there and chat ...

Leave your reply if you want to flock together we can decide some timing that can be convenient for all of us...

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I found out one good site that is having a huge collection of free magazines....

Each month many people upload magazines and you have to only login and read them....

So,here you "go........."

So,Here I am....

Alone in Unites states...

I landed in united states just before my college was to start...

I studied for around 1/2 year in Masters in Quality Assurance/Regulatory Affairs at Temple university...


I quite often wonder that why I entered into that field...But the reason I found was I as not having any good choices than that one,as the university is highly reputed in its pharmacy courses...

There was a thunderstorm of experiences waiting for me to exhaust me...(Though this exhaution prove good for me)

I felt shock initially as it was quite difficult situation as there were many things making me uncomfortable....cold weather,some nostalgia and some broken relations...

I only found out after coming to philadelphia that the campus where I had to attend classes was 45 miles away !!!!!

I found a room mate whom I would say the first weird creature i observed here.

I was like a elder brother to him but you can not expect the same thing from opposite side..

And He though I consider was immature but had been unfair to me...As I had quite nostalgia developed due to him..

Also I found it quite difficult to stay with him as it was quite costly for me to afford.

So,I changed my first home only in 2 months....

The new house where I started living was 2 bedroom and 6 people sharing it !!!!

So,I got a good experience of adjusting with other unlikely persons...

But It was quite difficult for me to get acclamatize to that house and it took almost 1 month..

I fell into the most nervous emotional blunder during that 1 month....The special nervous month

I found a new friend during that time(Though not a friend in any sense)

That is always the case that sometimes when you are emotionally disturbed someone can easily fool you...

So,The new friend was the second weird charecter I was to observe here..

I was not able to judge him ever till it was too late for me..

It is due to his random behaviours such that I did not expect from him....

So,here friends there are such dangerous persons that are impossible to be judged because they have very aberrant behaviour.....trust me they are the most horrible to make relations with...

So,I found that he was helpful to me and I did not understand that always while he was helping me there were dollars snatched from my pocket for doing small or big favours to him...

So,I could not identify a special "camouflaging person without color change" and I lent him some money and finally got the money after the relations broke to its end point...

Also during the same time I observed a group of friend that I think I lost due to my naive nature to tell truth and to help everyone...

So,this month was full of emotional blunders for me...

It was good fortune for me that only after 20 days of my settling in philly,I got a quite good job in school of pharmacy as research assistant in medicinal chemistry...

So that I had no time to go deeply into emotions.....

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