WISE journal entry #4

                                                                                                                                

Name: Leah Gerald

Entry: #4 (2/21/2012)

WISE Week: 2

Written on Date:2/27/2012

Mentor: Sagar


today was different because I got to see a lecture by a professor who discovered something important to the research my mentors are doing. as soon as I arrived, Sagar told me what we were going to do. he said the man we were about to see ( his name was DJ Pan I believe) was the person who found out about this Hippo pathway that they work with. We walked over to it (It was in the hospital) and along the way we had some issues because I forgot to carry my ID, but I will not be doing that again. Once we got there I was surprised to see so many people there. I expected a smaller number, because I figured this was something only a small amount of people are actually interested in, but I was wrong. the room was almost entirely full. I understood little to nothing of what this man said, partly because of his accent, partly because of the content, but I could understand the parts my mentor had explained to me before, about how the Hippo pathway then lead to the Yorkie or the yap, so for the most part, I understood the basics. I left feeling like I didn't quite get everything, but like everything else that just reminded me how much out of my element I was. when I'm down at Hopkins, I feel like the slowest person in the room, and today I finally started getting used to that feeling. So far, I've been trying to get up to speed with everyone in the lab, but that's just not going to happen, so I guess today is the day that I learned to accept the fact that I am probably not going to catch up to these people anytime soon.