remember that monster molecule that mike was working on for six years?
well, turns out that someone from another group has managed to make that molecule.
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we found out a while ago and i've been meaning to post something about it, but the problem is that we're not really sure how we feel about it.
mike says "good for them, but i'm glad i've got my job and don't have to think about that anymore." and just to make things more complicated, he happens to work with a guy who was part of the group who completed the molecule.
i can't help thinking that even if he had stayed in grad school longer, it's unlikely that the route he was working on would have worked out anyway and in the end he would just have been scooped. on the other hand, there's the fact that he worked really hard for several years on a route that now looks like it would not have worked.
so what else is there to say about it? i guess i just have to cycle back to the beginning.
remember that monster molecule mike was working on? turns out, that someone from another group has managed to make it.
2 comments:
I think the first four words of Rick Warren's Purpose Driven Life book are the best four in the whole book. "It's not about you."
We each do our part, and work at what is good, and sometimes there is success. But we have to be careful not to think we're so great as to get the credit for it.
Ultimately, we rejoice too in the success of others, because it's good for all of us.
It IS good that this molecule was made, right????
That's my wisdom for the day. Now I can rest.
RH
But how cool is it that your thesiss was cited in the paper that came out, Mike? That sort of makes you famous! Or at least it made you a topic of conversation among a retired librarian, musician, and homemaker in Massachusetts.
Magrill
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