Does anyone else feel like they are progressing really slowly? i have been here 5 months now and I am still not properly into the lab work. I feel like I will never relly get started and I will be stuck reading forever. Please tell me I'm not the only one!

have spent most of my time doing boring stuff. have loads of ideas on paper and written up, just need time to actually implement the stuff. grr.

on my 2nd year already and no much progress, all time thinking about giving up...we should organise a self-support group:))

yes me too! Have been here 5 months and just don't seem to spend much time in the lab. My experiments seem to take a long time to plan and set up, but only a day to perform. Spend a long time at my desk.......

Not too worried i guess as have some interesting results, but other people seem to be working such long hours, i'm doing 9-5pm at most.

yeah im here 9 till 5 only. I'm doing cell culture so it takes a few hours at the most for me to do that. I'm waiting to start some other work but I can't do that till the 15th march!

yes i'm doing cell culture too. Cells take a while to grow, so have to wait!

i feel under pressure to report results already. it doesnt help that one of our competitors has just published in nature *bum*

Hmm, my cells grow too fast- can't get them to bloody stop cycling. Got to split them 1/10 every tree days ...... anyway, I'm at the end of my three years (well, they'll be over on the 6 march) and I'm struggeling to get all that nice data together to make a nice PhD. I've got just about enough to submitt soon, but it's just a bit dissapointing to have not got that much out of the three years.

Which reminds me- do you now have a pet, DanB? Still got some Hamster & Mouse cells you could have....