Passages

Kat has been putting incredible hours in at the lab as she prepares for her Qualifying Exam on May 23. The quals are kind of like the midpoint of the PhD. It is the point at which you declare your thesis and plan for the rest of the program.

She was able to take a much-deserved break on Saturday when we went to a going-away party for one of her colleagues, Jonas, who is graduating and moving to Montreal with his wife (Note the lab gift of lots of warm, wooly clothing in the picture below)



Its really neat to see scientists get together to drink European sodas you've never heard of, talk about subjects which are actually making more sense to me (scary), and to celebrate the accomplishments of one of their fellow researchers.

I think this recent season has given Kat a lot more hope... One day, Lord-Willing, it will be US wearing funny clothes in the park with a bunch of grinning scientists gathered round!