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Back on the Blog Wagon!

This experience in the east coast has been a trip. Literally and figuratively. I'm a UGSP research fellow at the National Institutes of Health, where I'm receiving training and experience and mentorship galore. And I've been insanely busy with graduate school applications and research, research, research! But finally, at long last, I have the bulk of my graduate school applications submitted and I'm determined to get back in to the crickity blogging wagon.

In a nutshell, all of this is happening so fast and I have a lot that I want to share. Unfortunately, I'm nervous about what and how to share my experiences without violating any of the million + 2 forms I signed about my position as a government employee. In future posts, I will do my best to express my experiences, but to make it very clear that I'm not doing so as a government representative. And I'll also go crazy in August 2014 when I'm no longer a government employee - but in the meantime, I need to be careful.
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  1. AnonymousDecember 7, 2013 at 10:34 AM

    Hiya, Merry December! You didn't actually post photos yet, did you? As I'm not seeing any in this post. Sometimes I wish I had made copies of the forms I signed when I started my job, so that I could remember what exactly I had agreed to.

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    1. DexJanuary 7, 2014 at 12:23 PM

      No no. I'm terrible! And yes, knowing what one has agreed to professionally definitely comes in handy. ;)

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