Summer is here!

Ahh, summer in San Diego. When finally the temperature is... well, exactly like the rest of the year. But the probability of rain drops to about 0.01%, which corresponds to the probability of wildfires being about 50%.

So its summer, and I am out of school and working at a local biotech. Its been awesome to get started working for a great company in an exciting industry. Its all new to me, though ~ My interest in Biotech is recent, and I'm not exactly trying to hide it.

In fact, I've actually done the opposite. I'm playing the "student card" to the hilt, and going with the assumption that "no question is too dumb to ask." I'm finding it to be refreshingly liberating to ask things I would previously be too ashamed to admit.

Example: Upon meeting a person at a networking event who identifies himself as a synthetic chemist, rather than trying to bluff my way into a conversation, I ask, "Hey, what the heck does a synthetic chemist do?"

Ironically, ignorance actually DOES lead to some interesting conversations... even with Synthetic Chemists.

So as I said, summer is here, and hopefully our trickle of blog readers has not TOTALLY dried up during those lean months while I was busting it through school. I'll try to share some of our adventures this summer, and we'd love to hear from you, too!