Jobs!

Today has been great.

I got to my LAST lecture and we got our mycology lab finals back, and I got one wrong, but I'm assuming she threw that question out because I got 100% on it. So... awesome! Anyway, I was going to go the gym directly after our LAST lecture, but I started talking to Karen in the hallway and we ended up sitting on the floor talking for over 2 hours, which was fun. So then Dr R (who teaches pretty much half of my classes) walks down the hallway and I asked her if she still needed a TA for the microbiology lab this summer (i had asked her this a while back and she said to talk to her about it later). She said yes, and then paused and said "I also need an assistant for research this summer, would you be interested in that?" I asked what was involved in it, and it sounded fun. And she said it'll be about 10 hrs a week and she's still waiting on the grant to go through, but she's pretty sure it will so I'll get paid for doing this. She also said if I needed credit, I could TA for credit. i told her that i have plenty of credits and just wanted to volunteer. then she told me that she's pushing for it to be paid because the one class is pretty large and Dr O really needs help with it, plus there are two seperate classes and they're twice a week. And she's pretty sure she can work something out to get money to pay me for doing it.

So... AWESOME!!!

It's SO nice to finally be recognized for my hard work. Out of all of my classmates, she asked me to help her with research!?

And this is perfect, because it means I won't have to quit at HQ (which i would have felt pressured to do if I worked at the hospital lab), so I'll still have HQ in the fall (unless Dr R wants me to continue research with her in fall-which in that case, screw HQ, I'm working on research in a micro lab!). Plus it's fricking amazing experience, will be really good for my resume and interviews this summer, plus she'd be able to write me a letter of recommendation after knowing my work ethic and how I work in a lab setting, not just as a professor-student point of view, which will also be awesome.

Dr R said to get ahold of her after finals because by then she'll know more about the grant and the possiblity of getting paid to TA and stuff. So nothing is final, and last minute the grant might not go through or something, but it sounds really promising and i'm really excited about it.

It's the perfect situation. Because I actually hate the hospital that I would have gotten a job with (beaumont is horrible!) and I know that if i had to do my internship there and not St Johns that I'd cry my eyes out and hate the whole thing. So if i can avoid beaumont... then GREAT!