Yellowstone๐๏ธ
Sunday, August 16





































Monday, August 17










































Tuesday, August 18




























์ ๋ง ์์ฐฌ ์๊ฐ์ด์๋ค! ์ฌ์ค์ ์๋ก์คํค ์๋ด์ฑ
์์ ์๋ 8๊ฐ์ ๋ช
์ ์ค 7๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋ค ๊ฐ๋ค๋ ใ
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์ต๋ํ ์ฌ์ง์ ๋ง์ด ์ฌ๋ ค๋ดค๋๋ฐ, ์กฐ๊ธ์ด๋๋ง ์๋ก์คํค์ด ์ด๋ค ๊ณณ์ธ์ง ๋๋ ์ ์์ผ๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ๋ค. ๋์์ด ๊ดํํ๊ณ ๋ง์์ด ๋ปฅ ๋ซ๋ฆฐ ์ด์ (๋ฐ์ด์จ ใ
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!!!), ์ญ๋์ ์ธ ๊ฐ์ด์ , ์๋ก์คํค์ด๋ผ๋ ์ด๋ฆ์ ๊ฑธ๋ง์ ์ ๊ธฐํ ์์ ๊ฐ์ง ์์๋ค… ์ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์์ด ์๊ฐ๋ณด๋ค ๋๋ฌด ๋๋ฌด ๋ง์์ด์ (๋ค 100% ์ฑ๊ณตํ๋ค. ํนํ ๋ธ๋ฆฌ์คํท๊ณผ ํฌ์ผ์ดํฌ. ๋ฏธ์ณค๋ค) ๋ ์ข์๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๋ค. ์์๋ ๋ค ์ข์๊ณ , ๋ฌด์๋ณด๋ค ๊ฐ์ด ์ฌํํ๋ ์ข
๋น์ด๊ฐ ์ด์ ๋ ์ ํด์ฃผ๊ณ , ์ด๊ฒ์ ๊ฒ ์ฌํ ์ฑํฅ์ด ์ ๋ง์์ ์ฐธ ์ข์ ๊ฒ ๋ง์ด ๋ณด๊ณ ํน ์ฌ๊ณ ์จ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๋ค. ๊ณ ๋ง๋ค๐
What a full trip! We pretty much made it to seven of the eight highlights in the Yellowstone guidebook. I tried to include as many photos as possible, and I hope they give you at least a little sense of what Yellowstone is like. The endless, wide-open grasslands that made me feel so free (bison!!!), the lively geysers, the rocks with such unusual colors, so fitting for the name Yellowstone… Oh, and the food was so, so much better than I expected (every single meal was a hit. Especially the brisket and pancakes. Insane), which I think made it even better. All the places we stayed were great too, and above all, Jongbin did such a good job driving. We also travel in similar ways, so I feel like I got to see so many wonderful things and really rest. Thank you๐
Wednesday, August 19


์ฌํ์ ์์ฃผ ์ฌ์ ๋กญ๊ฒ ์ ๋ค๋
์์ ์ด์ ํน ์ด ์ ์์ด์ ๊ทธ๋ฐ๊ฐ? ์ฌ๋
์์ด ์ผ์์ ์ ๋ณต๊ทํ๋ค! ์ฅ๋ ์์ฐจ๊ฒ ๋ณด๊ณ ์ด์ ์๋ก์ด ๋ง์๊ฐ์ง์ผ๋ก ๋ค์ ์ ์์ํด๋ณด๋ ค๊ณ ํ๋ค. ์ผ๋จ 1. ๋ด๊ฐ ํด์ผ ํ ๊ฒ์ ์ฐ์ ์ํ๊ธฐ (์๊ฐ์ ์๊ณ ์ถ์ ์ฐ๊ตฌ ๋ฐฉํฅ์ด ์๊ธด ํด๋ ๊ทธ๊ฑธ ์กฐ๊ธ ๋ค๋ก ๋ฏผ๋ค๊ณ ์ฃฝ์ง ์๋๋ค ใ
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) 2. ์ง๊ธ๊น์ง ํด์๋ ๊ฒ์ ๊ณตํต๋ ์์์ผ๋ก ์ ์ ๋ฆฌํ๊ธฐ.
Maybe it’s because the trip was so relaxed and I got to rest properly yesterday? I settled right back into everyday life without feeling worn out from traveling! I stocked up on groceries too, and now I want to make a fresh start with a new mindset. First, 1. Prioritize what I need to do (there is a research direction I want to spend time on, but putting it off a little won’t kill me haha). 2. Organize everything I’ve done so far in a consistent format.
Thursday, August 20



์ดํ ์๊ฐ๋ณด๋ค ์ง๊ธ๊น์ง ํ๋ ๊ฑธ ์ ๋ฆฌํ๋ค๋ ๊ฒ ๋ง๋ง์น ์์์ ์ข ์ฌ์ ๋กญ๊ฒ ์๊ฐ์ ์ถฉ๋ถํ ์จ์ผ ํ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๋ค. ์คํ์๋ ๋๋ ๋ง์ ํ๋ก์ ํธ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ดํ๋ An (CCB ๋๊ธฐ), Caleb(์์ ์ ์์
์ ๊ฐ์ด ๋ค์๋ BioE ์น๊ตฌ, An๊ณผ ๋ง์ด ์นํ๋ค)๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ์ฒ์์ผ๋ก ์
์ด ๊ฐ์ด ์ ๋
์ ๋จน์ผ๋ฌ ๊ฐ๋ค. ์ฐ์ฐ์ฐฎ๊ฒ ํ์์ ๋จน์ผ๋ฌ SUNGHO (250 Hyde St, San Francisco, CA 94102)์ ๊ฐ๋๋ฐ ์ ์์ ์ ํ ๋ฒ ์๋ณด๊ธด ํ๋๋ฐ ๋๋ฌด ๋ง์์๋ค.. 2๋
์ ์ฒ์ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ ์์ ๋๊ฐ ๊ฐ์๊ธฐ ๊ธฐ์ต๋๋๋ฐ, ๊ทธ๋ ํ์์ ๋ํ ๊ธฐ๋์น๊ฐ ์๋นํ ๋์์ ๋ญ ๋จน์ด๋ ์ฉ ๋ง์๋ค๊ณ ๋๊ปด์ง์ง ์์๋๋ฐ ํ์ง์ ์๋ค ๋ณด๋ ์์ํ ๊ธฐ์ค์ด ๋ฎ์์ก๋..? ์ ์ ์์ ๋๋ณด๋ค ๋ ๋ง์๋ ๋๋์ด์๋ค ์ด์จ๋ ์ง๊ธ ์ํ๋์์๋ ์ธ ๊ตฐ๋ฐ ์ ๋ ์ถ์ฒํ ํ์์ง์ด ์๊ฒผ๋ค!
Phew, organizing everything I’ve done so far is harder than I expected, so I think I’ll need to take my time and give it enough attention. In the afternoon, I went out for dinner for the first time as a group of three with An (a CCB classmate I work with on lots of projects) and Caleb, a BioE friend I took a class with before who’s close with An. We happened to go to Sungho for Korean food, and wow, I’d been there once before, but ah, it was so good.. I suddenly remembered when I first came to the U.S. two years ago. Back then, my expectations for Korean food were pretty high, so nothing tasted all that good to me. Have my standards gradually dropped from living abroad..? It felt even tastier than the last time I went. Anyway, I now have about three Korean restaurants in San Francisco that I’d recommend!
Friday, August 21
OT-2 protocol์ ์ด์ ๋ณธ๊ฒฉ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ง๋ค๊ณ ์๋ค. ์ด๊ฒ ์๊ฐ๋ณด๋ค ์ ํด์ผ ํ parameters๋ค์ด ๋ง์์ ๋ ๊ฐ๊ฐ ์ต์ ํ๊ฐ ํ์ํ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๋ค๋ ๋๋ ใ ใ .. ์ผ์ผ ์ ๋ง ๋ช ๋ฒ ์ ํ ๊ฑฐ์์ผ๋ฉด manual pipette์ด ํจ์ฌ ๋ซ์ง ์์์๊น ์ถ๋ค. ์ง์ง๋๋ ๊ฑด ์ฌ๊ธฐ๊น์ง ํ๊ณ … ์ด์ฌํ ํด๋ด์ผ์ง. ์ ๋ ์ ์ค๋๋ง์ ์ฌ๋ฏผ์ด๋ ํตํ๋ฅผ ํ๋๋ฐ, ์์ฐ.. ์ง์ง ๋ช ๋ฌ์ ํ ๋ฒ ์๋ค ์์์ ๋ค์ ๋๋ฉด ์ฐธ ์๊ฐ์ด ์ ๋ง์ ๋ง ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ๋ค๋ ๋๋์ด ๋ ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋๋ ์ข์ ์์์ด 100%๋ผ์ ๋๋ ๋ฉ๋ฌ์ ๊ธฐ๋ถ์ด ์ข์์ง๊ธด ํ๋ค ใ ใ ๋๋ ๋ด๊ฐ ์ ํํ ๊ฒ์ ๊ฐ์ฌํ๋ฉฐ ์ด์์ผ์ง.
I’m now getting serious about writing the OT-2 protocol. There are more parameters to decide on than I expected, and I feel like each one will need to be optimized too ใ ใ .. Ugh, if I were only going to do this a few times, I wonder if manual pipetting would have been much better. That’s enough whining… Time to work hard at it. In the evening, I talked to Jaemin for the first time in a while, and wow.. Whenever I hear what my friends are up to every few months, it really, really hits me how fast time flies. Still, it’s all good news, so it makes me feel happy. I should live with gratitude for the choices I’ve made as well.
Saturday, August 22
๋ณดํต ๋ ์ด ์ ๋ง ์ข์ง๋ง, ๊ทธ๋๋ ์ฃผ๋ง์๋ ๋ ๋ ์ด ์ข๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ํ๋ค. ์๋ํ๋ฉด ์์ฆ ์ฃผ๋ง์ ์จ์ดํธ๋ฅผ ํ๊ฑฐ๋ ๋ฌ๋์ ํ ๋ ํด๋ฅผ ๋ง์ผ๋ฉฐ ํ๋ ๊ฒ ์ทจ๋ฏธ๊ฐ ๋๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ! ๋คํํ ์ดํ ์๋ถํฐ ๋ ์ด ๊ฐ ๋์ gym ์ฅ์์์ ๊ธฐ๋ถ ์ข๊ฒ ์จ์ดํธ๋ฅผ ํ๊ณ , ๊ณต์์์ ์ญ์ ๊ธฐ๋ถ ์ข๊ฒ ํ์ด์ ๋ฐ์ผ๋ฉฐ ๊ทผ์ฒ ๋ฉ์์นธ ํธ๋ํธ๋ญ์์ ์ฐ ๋ธ๋ฆฌ๋๋ฅผ ๋จน์๋ค. ์ถ๊ทผํด์ ์ ๋ ๋ฆ๊ฒ๊น์ง ์๊ธด ํ๋๋ฐ, ์ ๋ง ๋ค์ ์ฃผ์ผ๋ง๋ก ์ฌ๋ฌ ๊ฐ์ง๋ก ์ข ์ ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ ๋๋์ด๋ค. ์ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ธ๋ก๊ทธ… ๋งค์ฃผ ํ๋ฃจํ๋ฃจ ๊ธฐ๋ก์ ์ด๋ ์ ๋ ํด๋๊ณ ์์ง๋ง, ๋ ๋๋ฌด ๋ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ ์์ํด์ ์ด์ ๋ ์ข ์๋์ผ๋ก ๋ด๊ฐ ์ธ ๋งํ source๋ค์ bullet points๋ก ์ ์ํด์ฃผ๋ workflow๋ฅผ ๋ง๋ค์ด๋ณด๋ ค๊ณ ํ๋ค. ์ด๊ฒ ์ฐธ ๋ฐ๋น ์ง ๋๋ ํด์ผ์ง ํด์ผ์ง ํ๋ฉด์๋ ๊ณ์ ๋ฏธ๋ฃจ๊ฒ ๋๊ณ ๋์ค์๋ ๊ฐ๊ณ ์ ๋ ธ๋ ฅ์ ๋ค์ฌ ๊ฐ ์ก๊ณ ์์์ ์ฐ์ง ์์ผ๋ฉด ๋์ ํ ๋ค์ฌ๋ค๋ณด๊ฒ ๋์ง ์์ผ๋. ์ด ํ๋ค์ ์ข ๋ฎ์ถ ํ์๊ฐ ์๋คใ ใ ์กฐ๋ง๊ฐ 2024๋ 2025๋ ์ฑ ์๋ ์์ฅ์ฉ์ผ๋ก ๋ผ ์์ ์ธ๋ฐ ๊ทธ๊ฒ๋ ์ฒ๋ฆฌํด์ผ ๋๋ค!
The weather is usually really nice, but I still hope it’ll be even nicer on weekends. That’s because lifting weights or running in the sun on weekends has become one of my hobbies lately! Luckily, it was supposed to clear up by eleven, so I enjoyed a workout on the gym rooftop, then enjoyed some more sunshine in the park while eating a burrito from a nearby Mexican food truck. I went into work and stayed until late in the evening, but I really feel like next week will be the week when I get things organized in several ways. Oh, and the blog… I do keep some day-to-day notes every week, but I’m starting to fall way behind again. So I want to build a workflow that automatically presents sources I could write from as bullet points. When things get busy, I keep thinking I should do it but put it off, and later I just can’t bring myself to look at it unless I make a huge effort to sit down and properly write. I need to lower that barrier a bitใ ใ . I’m also planning to have 2024 and 2025 books printed soon for my own collection, so I need to take care of that too!