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It\u2019s only really four days because we\u2019re having our group\u2019s Christmas party on Friday (laser quest and pub lunch) and then I\u2019m at a conference on Monday, before taking the rest of the week off before Christmas.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">Towards the end of First Year I wrote\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thechemistryofaphd.com\/2017\/11\/29\/reflections-on-first-year\/\" style=\"color:blue; text-decoration:underline\">this post<\/a>\u00a0about how I thought my first year had gone and I listed 5 things I wanted to change. In this post I\u2019m going to see how I did with those goals and create 5 new goals for Third Year.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"tab-stops:list 36.0pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">Read more papers: I managed this one quite well. In First Year, I sporadically printed and read papers but this year I got organised and set up an RSS feed, and have been pretty good at checking in with it most days \u2013 perhaps a little too often with my \u201cinbox zero\u201d tendencies. I use Mendeley to save anything I come across that might be useful for my project. I tried\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/labandfield.wordpress.com\/2016\/12\/29\/reading-365-or-rather-230-papers-a-year\/\" style=\"color:blue; text-decoration:underline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#365papers<\/a>\u00a0and failed miserably though, partly due to me losing the spreadsheet I was keeping track of papers on in an IT nightmare, but also me just not getting into a habit.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"tab-stops:list 36.0pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">Make more compounds: I certainly achieved this one. First Year involved trying a lot of new chemistry and at the start of this year I optimised a lot of that chemistry, making it far easier to get final compounds out. For example, one set of molecules I made last year took 8-9 separate reactions to get there and now, with a small change to the chemical structure that I\u2019ve learned doesn\u2019t kill the activity of the drug in most cases, I can get to those compounds in 2-3 steps.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"tab-stops:list 36.0pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">Be more selective in the seminars I attend: In First Year, I felt I had to go to every single seminar to widen my knowledge. But as you specialise, you learn what interests you and what a good use of your time is. I still go to the odd seminar outside of my research area so I\u2019m not in too much of a rabbit hole, but I certainly feel like I\u2019ve been using my time a bit better when it comes to seminars.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"tab-stops:list 36.0pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">Attend more conferences: Having only been to one conference in First Year, I went to a few in 2018 \u2013 and still have one to go next week! I started the year by attending the\u00a0<i>Genome Stability Network Meeting\u00a0<\/i>in Cambridge in January; in March I went to the\u00a0<i>RSC-BMCS Mastering MedChem\u00a0<\/i>conference at University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, then\u00a0<i>RSC\/SCI Kinase 2018<\/i>\u00a0in May, again in Cambridge, and still have the\u00a0<i>RSC Biotechnology Group Chemical Tools in Systems Biology\u00a0<\/i>in London a week from today.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"tab-stops:list 36.0pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">Use this blog more: This one I\u2019ve technically achieved in the last month or so. Most of the year I found myself \u201cprocrasti-blogging\u201d \u2013 sporadically blogging \u2013 if I was taking part in a science writing course where an assignment involved writing a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thechemistryofaphd.com\/2018\/02\/01\/what-is-the-drug-discovery-process-part-i\/\" style=\"color:blue; text-decoration:underline\">blog<\/a>\u00a0or the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thechemistryofaphd.com\/2018\/05\/29\/ph-and-drug-design\/\" style=\"color:blue; text-decoration:underline\">Google Doodle<\/a>\u00a0of the day was linked to chemistry. Now I\u2019m making a concerted effort to post regularly here and also on my dedicated\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thechemistryofaphd\/\" style=\"color:blue; text-decoration:underline\">Instagram account<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">I think I\u2019ve done quite well in meeting all of those goals. They were fairly realistic goals, without quantification. Now here are my goals for Third Year:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"tab-stops:list 36.0pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">Keep using this blog: Weekly blog posts, a couple of Instagram stories\/posts a week. Over Christmas, I\u2019m going to make a longer term plan for content and schedule as many posts as I can, so it doesn\u2019t take up too much of my time during term-time. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"tab-stops:list 36.0pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">Get the desk\/bench balance right: I continue to struggle with staying at my desk more often than being in the lab. Often I choose reading, agonising over lab books\/write-ups and writing off lab tasks to \u201ctomorrow\u201d that could be done today rather than making stuff in the lab. If anyone has any tips about this please let me know in the comments.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"tab-stops:list 36.0pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">Get something published: I have something to show for my research and I really want to get some of it published in a medicinal journal, to show alongside my thesis at the end of my PhD. I\u2019m waiting for some long-promised data from a collaborator which will help supplement my work but I\u2019ve agreed with my supervisor that in February I need to start writing papers for publication without that research.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"tab-stops:list 36.0pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">Speak at a conference: Similar to the above, I have a sufficient story to tell and I would love to give a talk, just once, about my research at a conference rather than just standing beside a research poster at said conferences where people may or may not come over to hear about it. I\u2019d also like to go to a conference outside of the UK because travel is one of the perks of being in research.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"tab-stops:list 36.0pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">Finish the practical side of the project well: I plan to spend another year in the lab before writing up. I have until March 2020 technically, but I\u2019m leaving those three months as a \u201cbackstop\u201d of sorts \u2013 #relevant. In my head, I\u2019d like to get to 100 final compounds for my thesis (I\u2019m about two thirds of the way there so it seems tangible) and I\u2019d also like to spend some time in the biology labs my groups have, testing some of those compounds.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">Hopefully this time next year I\u2019ll be writing a similar post about how well I did in achieving my third year goals. It\u2019s crazy it\u2019s got to my last year in the lab already!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i>Fiona Scott (<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fi0n0\" style=\"color:blue; text-decoration:underline\"><i>@<\/i><i>fi0n0<\/i><\/a><i>) is a <span style=\"background:white\"><span style=\"color:black\">PhD researcher at Sussex Drug Discovery Centre. This story was published on December 10, 2018 on Fiona\u2019s blog, \u2018<\/span><\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/thechemistryofaphd.com\/\" style=\"color:blue; text-decoration:underline\"><i><span style=\"background:white\">The Chemistry Of A Phd<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"background:white\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color:black\">\u2019 (available <\/span><\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/thechemistryofaphd.com\/2018\/12\/10\/reflections-on-second-year\/\" style=\"color:blue; text-decoration:underline\"><i><span style=\"background:white\">here<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"background:white\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color:black\">) and has been republished here with her permission.<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my last week in the lab of 2018. 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