This week wraps up the HHMI undergraduate research fellows academic year program, and the last round of students presented their research for the department on Friday. It is such a pleasure to see the culmination of a year of work for these students- these are the students I had the chance to practice my bioethics lessons on, and I would attend their meetings otherwise just to hear what they were up to. I definitely developed an affectionate bias towards them, and I enjoyed sharing in their moment of recognition. The graduating seniors had put together an impressive amount of work, and gave half hours talks summarizing their research career. Two students from our lab gave talks, and fielded their questions really expertly. I got an extra hat tip from a couple of them, because of *wild waggling of eyebrows and shrugging* my work with HHMI.
While I was listening, I was also reflecting on how much I've enjoyed being able to work with these students. Of course, they are a very high performing group, and were very supportive of my efforts to get my class in shape. But I've also enjoyed having the opportunity to advise and mentor some of them, and I wish I had more time for those activities. And that's when it occurred to me that although I am looking forward to being done with benchwork after I graduate, I wouldn't mind working on a college campus. Y'know, career advising, or outreach or something- I am not so sure about teaching and grading and writing syllabuses and stuff yet.
This is in the light of last week's revelation to Mom, that I could be happy doing a lot of different things, as long I was doing them in Seattle. Don't read to much into it.
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