Finally made a choice. It was a tough call, but in the end, I decided on the synthetic biology lab. I've heard that the PI here can be a jerk, but he's been pretty cool so far. Fingers crossed that things don't get worse now that I'm here for good...
Also, how the heck do you tell people that you changed your last name? I didn't think about this aspect of it, when I decided to change it. The couple people I've mentioned it to reacted very strangely to it. Not sure why anyone besides my family would care (pretty sure I wouldn't care if someone I knew had their last name changed...). One woman, who I barely know, told me that she thinks I'm a sellout, and just trying to fit in. What a bunch of crap! Not only is that not at all my motivation, if you think about it, changing your name is a really unusual thing to do. The last thing you'd want to do if you just wanted to 'fit in' is change your name.
It's also sort of irritating having to update all my records and stuff. You forget how much crap has your name on it, until you have to go through and change it on everything...
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