UoM General Chat

[vox nihili]

looking at handbook, majors in old generation art and science seems more interesting!
like what was Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science? so cool!
or Theatre Studies Major, Cinema Studies Major and History and Philosophy of Science Major!
I feel new generation courses are dry, not interesting.

I don't know...listened to anat lec and my brain does not function any more I guess

And here's my procrastination for this afternoon

[simpak]

What do you think you would be doing today if you hadn't swapped over?

Working at McDonalds.

[hobbitle]

Working at McDonalds.

Hey, what's your thesis topic? 

[simpak]

Hey, what's your thesis topic? 

Is this a legitimate question or a joke about fast food and theses I'm just not getting?

[hobbitle]

Is this a legitimate question or a joke about fast food and theses I'm just not getting?

Actually I was just asking about the thesis because I was wondering earlier today.
The quote was accidental (I wasn't concentrating)... oops.

[simpak]

Actually I was just asking about the thesis because I was wondering earlier today.
The quote was accidental (I wasn't concentrating)... oops.

Hahaha oh okay.  My thesis topic is looking at tissue-resident memory T cells (a type of memory T cells that resides permanently in a tissue rather than recirculating through the blood and lymph) that are embedded in the thymus however this may change in light of recent FAILED experiments.  I am hoping to characterise their maintenance/survival requirements and to determine if CD103+ and CD103- populations differ wrt recirculation and proliferative potential.

[alondouek]

Hahaha oh okay.  My thesis topic is looking at tissue-resident memory T cells (a type of memory T cells that resides permanently in a tissue rather than recirculating through the blood and lymph) that are embedded in the thymus however this may change in light of recent FAILED experiments.  I am hoping to characterise their maintenance/survival requirements and to determine if CD103+ and CD103- populations differ wrt recirculation and proliferative potential.

Sounds pretty awesome tbh

Also - although definitely focus immediately on your Honours project - you might like to hang on to any results from "failed" experiments because you can publish that sort of thing here: Journal of Negative Results in Biomedicine.

[simpak]

Lol, I think the result will still be significant even though it's a noneffect - it's just we were trying to produce a model for the cells in the thymus but it doesn't seem they are generated in time for me to manipulate them during Honours, it being such a short year and all D:

[alondouek]

Would it be best to redefine the scope of your Honours project, then continue it as a Masters/PhD, or just get a new project entirely?

[simpak]

I have nooo idea - I got those results at midnight on Thursday so haven't really had a chance to discuss with anyone yet.
Definitely not a new project entirely, it will still be in the same realm.

[scribble]

i dont wanna go back to unniiiiiiiiii
/crying

[Russ]

I haven't been given my timetable for tomorrow, so I'm assuming I don't have to go back to uni

[Ballerina]

"Which answer is the most correct?"

>>:c

[Stick]

I don't know why so many second year+ students here don't seem to like A/Prof Laura Parry... we had her today and she was fine. :S

[Belgarion]

I don't know why so many second year+ students here don't seem to like A/Prof Laura Parry... we had her today and she was fine. :S

I liked her as a lecturer. Especially her love of llamas and certain pronunciations (e.g. Tunica media)