Tonight at group meeting there were a number of instances in which folks in the group discussed wrapping up various parts of their research and asking what to do next from the boss. No more data to gather, just begin putting everything in correct order so it can be presented/published, with the end game in mind.
In fact, even the boss discussed "wrapping everything up" in the more literal sense - all of that equipment and glassware needs to be shipped out to California when we're done, so if there's anything that we're not using anymore we need to pack it up and get it shipped out.
I couldn't help but think to myself, as this was going on today (I wasn't presenting) - I'm not sure if I'm ready for that yet! Not because I don't want to be ready, but I feel like there are so many things that still need to be done. More assays, more coupling reactions, more analysis, more data, more data, more data... I don't know if I'm ever going to be ready to finish. I'm not sure when the boss is going to say "it's time to graduate", but hopefully it will be sometime soon. In an ideal world, I would be farther along than I am, but obviously life is not ideal.
All I can do is what I can do now.
In any case, it's time to push so I will continue to push!
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