Honestly speaking, my motivation for anything lab-related was sooooo low the past couple of weeks, and that situation lasted even until last Sunday. I don't know, I guess the hospital internship in March and the quite clinical latest semester made me kind of dread a nine-month break from disease study.
With that feeling, I had serious trouble to act like I was happy when showing up to the lab on Monday. My first day did no job in swaying my mood, either. Basically, the only interesting thing I did was preparing a medium bottle for my future cell cultures. Up until now, and today is Thursday, I haven't touched the tissue culture hood again. :(
But well. By now, I've become more accustomed to lab-life. And luckily, I'm also feeling less unmotivated. I'm looking forward to next week when I'll finally be able to cultivate my own cells. Now I'm still enjoying my immense freedom, hehe. When I do my own experiments, I won't be having so much free time, but still, I like this feeling of being able to plan my whole day without any obligatory, strictly timed attendances for classes or seminars.
Plus, in the end, this is what I've been needing the whole time. A new environment. It comes with a special challenge this time - in form of my first real work environment. I mean, I've experienced work environments before for sure, but a place where I have to come to daily and over a longer period of time (nine months - not four weeks like my usual hospital internships)... this is a first. Also, being a newbie in an established circle is always a challenge, too. But I consider myself lucky because it seems like everyone in my lab is nice (so far... lol).
So, yeah. I think I can handle this. Nine months being a full-time pseudo-scientist - here I come!
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