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Woo-hoo! Bought Perl for Bioinformatics. I think I have a plan: pick 5 schools to apply to, write pathetic multiply-proofed emails to Bay Area faculty sounding them out wrt application, game system for admission to Fall 2010 quarter. Email contacts for letters of recommendation. If all else fails, pick up classes and/or subject GREs, reapply for Fall 2011. Debate value of education versus location. Angst a lot. Consume comfort foods at an alarming rate. Run anxiety off on evil treadmill. But it's all going to be okay! I have Anathem to keep me company through the cold dark winter of my soul.

Just in time to save us all from my overwrought emotions, XKCD brings us all back to dorm living and geekery. But does this count as a sort of posthumous example of the Pauli effect?

Current Mood: excited

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foxfirefey

Oh hey! I ran across this post on the new latest page and got excited because you mentioned bioinformatics! You might be interested in the

bioinformatics community I made.

From:

ase

Whoa, small world! I feel a WOO BIOINFORMATICS icon would be appropriate. Possibly to be followed by a BOO BIOINFORMATICS icon once I actually start trying to code.

From:

foxfirefey

Yay bioinformatics! We already have a few other bioinformatics people in the community, it's exciting. I'm planning a post soon detailing some papers I'm studying about using support vector machines in bioinformatics, since that's my one of my current work projects. I don't know how familiar you are with coding, but since DW itself is written in Perl there is a

perl community a bunch of the devs are in. And, someone is running an

intro_to_cs stint if that sounds appealing as well! It's not in Perl, but it might be a good way to have a crash course in some useful CS concepts. And Python is also a useful language to have for bioinformatics as well as Perl!

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ase

I don't know how familiar you are with coding

Ha ha ha, not at all. I'm one of that pack of biology people who have have powerful genetics and wet bench skills, and sweet naivete about anything done with a keyboard. But I'd like to change that.