To start off, I need to tell you a little about myself, without giving away completely who I am. Why the shroud of secrecy? No real reason... besides the fact if any of my students were ever to see this site, there might be some issues. So for now, I will be Temporary Prof. Or, Dr. Temporary Prof to be more accurate and reflective of the 7 years it took me to get through graduate school (and that hard earned title of "Doctor of Philosophy").
Now my background in as little words as possible:
1st) Oldest child (out of 2) born to two non-scientist parents
2nd) Undergraduate at a private university where I got my first introduction to research by performing a summer student internship that turned into a part-time student internship during the remainder of college.
3rd) Graduate student in biological sciences at a prestigious private university. (Why did I feel the need to add prestigious there? I guess for my own ego boost)
4th) Thesis lab was thankfully very well funded, so I had (what I now realize to be) a non-average graduate career where money was not a limiting factor and there was no trouble with doing the $$$ experiments.
5th) Currently employed full time job as a post-doctoral fellow at a site of major research.
6th) Also, currently employed as an adjunct faculty member at a local community college, where I teaching an introductory biology course (hence forward referred to as Baby Bio or Bio101) and its corresponding laboratory.
7th) Oh, yeah..... and I'm female. Married to a non-scientist and mom to two fur-babies, that would be of the canine type.
So I think thats good enough for now. And either later today or tomorrow.... the stories of my first year teaching will start.
Enjoy.
