Aims Set๐ฏ
Sunday, April 5









์ค๋๋ ์ข
๋น์ด์ ๋ฌ๋์ ์ ๋ง์ณค๋ค. ๋ฉ์ ๋ง๋ผํค์ ๋ด ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ๋ง์๋ฐ, ๋ด ์ ๋ฒ์ฃผ๊น์ง์ ๊ธฐ๋ก์ ๋ณด๊ณ ๋ ๋์ฒ ํ๊ฒ ์์ค์ ๋นํด ๋๋ฌด ๋์ ๊ฐ๋(์ฌ๋ฐ์)๋ก ๋ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ฒ์ผ ์๋ ์๋ค๊ณ ๋งํด์ค์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ ๋ค ์ค๋์ ํจ์ฌ ๋ ์ฌ์ ๋กญ๊ฒ ๋ฐ์ด๋ดค๋ค. ์๋ฌด๋๋ ๋ง์ผ๋น 1๋ถ 30์ด ๊ฐ๊น์ด ์๋๋ฅผ ์ค์ด๋ ํจ์ฌ ์์ํ๊ฒ ์์ฃผํ ์ ์์๋ค. ์ผ๋จ ์ด๋ ๊ฒ half ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๊น์ง ์ญ ๋๋ฆฌ๊ณ ํ์ผ์ ํ๋ จ์ ๋ณํํด์ ์๋๋ฅผ ์ ์ฐจ ์์ ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ฌ๋ ค๋ณด๋ ค ํ๋ค๐ช ๋ฐค์ Bill๊ณผ ๋ฏธํ
์ด ์์ด์(์ ๋ง ๋ด ๋ PI๋ ์ด๋ ๊ฐ์๋ ์ฝ๊ฒ ๋ง๋ ์ ์๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ผ ๊ฑฐ๋คโฆ ๊ฐ์ฌํ๋ค) ์คํ์๋ ์๋ฃ๋ฅผ ์ค๋นํ๊ณ An๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ๋จธ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ๋ฌ ๊ฐ๋ค(๋ฒ์จ 4์ฃผ๊ฐ ์ง๋ฌ๋ค๋?). An๋ ์ต๊ทผ์ ์ด๊ฒ์ ๊ฒ ์ฃผ์ ๋ฅผ ์์ ํ๋๋ผ ๊ณ ์์ด ๋ง์๋ฐ, ์ ๋ฒ์ ๋งํ๋ค์ํผ ๋์ด ๊ฒน์น๋ ๋ถ๋ถ์ด ์ข ์์ด์ ์๋ก ์ค๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฉฐ(๋ฏธ์ฉ์ค ์์์๋) ์์ฃผ ์ด์ฌํ ์๊ธฐํ๋ค ใ
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โฆ ์ ํ๋ฆด ๊ฑฐ๋ผ ๋ฏฟ๋๋ค. ์ ๋
์ผ๋ก๋ ๋ฏธ์ฉ์ค ๋์์ด๋๋ถ์ ์ถ์ฒ์ ๋ฐ์ Taishan Cuisine (781 Broadway, San Francisco, CA 94133)์ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ๋๋ฐ ์ค, ์ข์๋ค! ์ claypot rice์ด ํนํ ์ข์๋ค. ์์ฆ์๋ ์กฐ๊ธ ์ด์ง ๋์ ๋ ๋ฎ์ถฐ์ Google Maps 3์ ํ๋ฐ๋๊น์ง ์๋ํด๋ด๋ ์ข์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๋ค๋ ์๊ฐ์ ํ๋ค ใ
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๋ฏธํ
์ ์ ๋๋ฌ๊ณ , Bill์ด ์ ๋ง ๊ณ ๋ง๊ฒ๋ ์ง์ calculation์ ํด์คฌ๋ค. ๋ค๋ง ์ญ์ ์น ํ ์์ด Zoom์ผ๋ก ์ฒ์ฒํ ํ๋์ฉ ์ดํด๋ณด๊ธฐ๋ ์ฝ์ง ์์์, ์ด์ ๋ค๋ค์์ฃผ์ SF๋ก ์ค์ ๋ค๊ณ ํ๋ ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์ ์ก์ ์๊ธฐํ๊ธฐ๋ก ํ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋๋ ๋๋์ด specific aim์ ํ์ ์ง์ด์, ๋ด์ผ ํ๋ฑ ์จ๋ฒ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ต์๋๋ค์๊ฒ ๋ณด๋ธ ๋ค commitee ๋ถ๋ค๋ ํ ๋ฒ์ฉ์ ๋ ๋ณด๋ ค๊ณ ํ๋ค. ๋๋์ดโฆ๐ฅน
I finished another run with Jongbin. There are a lot of marathon runners in the lab, and after looking at my logs from last week, they pointed out that I might have been running at an intensity that is too high for my current level, especially in terms of heart rate. So today we both tried running much more comfortably. Cutting my pace by nearly 1 minute 30 seconds per mile made it much easier to finish. For now, I want to keep extending the long run until I reach half-marathon distance, and then gradually raise my speed more steadily by adding weekday training. I had a meeting with Bill at night (honestly, my two PIs are not people you can easily meet anywhere. I am grateful), so I spent the afternoon preparing materials and then went to get a haircut with An (has it already been four weeks?). An has also been struggling with revisions and changes to his project, and as I said before, we have some overlap, so we talked a lot back and forth, even during the haircut. I believe it will work out. For dinner, based on our stylistโs recommendation, I went to Taishan Cuisine (781 Broadway, San Francisco, CA 94133), and it was good. The claypot rice was especially great. These days I have been thinking it might be fine to lower my standards a bit and try places in the high 3s on Google Maps too. The meeting went well, and Bill kindly did the calculation himself. Still, without a whiteboard it is not easy to go through everything step by step over Zoom, so since he will be back in SF in about two weeks, we decided to set a date to talk then. But we finally locked in the specific aims, so tomorrow I will write them up quickly, send them to my professors, and then meet with each committee member at least once. Finally๐ฅน
Monday, April 6
๋ฉ๋ฏธํ ๋ง ๊ฐ๋จํ๊ฒ ์ฐธ์ํ๊ณ , specific aim page๋ฅผ ์ฐ๋ ๋ฐ ์๊ฐ์ ์์๋ค. ์ ๋ ์ Kevan๊ณผ Bill์๊ฒ ๋ณด๋ผ ์ ์์๊ณ , ํผ๋๋ฐฑ์ ๋ฐ๋ก ์ ๋ฐ์์ ๋ฐ๋ก committee์๊ฒ ๋ฉ์ผ์ ๋๋ ธ๋ค. ์ต๊ทผ์ ๋ต์๋ ๋๋ถ์ ์ฌ์ค ์ ์ฒด์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ฐฉํฅ์ ๋ง์กฑํ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ ๊ทผ๋ ์ ๋ฐ์ดํธ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ์ ๋ชปํ๋ ๋๋จธ์ง ๋ ๋ถ์ ํ๋ฃจ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ๋ณด๊ณ ์๊ฒฌ์ ๋ฌผ์ด์ผ ํ๋ค!
I only briefly attended the lab meeting and then focused on writing the specific aims page. By the evening, I was able to send it to Kevan and Bill, got feedback quickly, and then emailed the committee right away. The two committee members I met recently seemed generally satisfied with the overall direction, so I really need to meet the other two soon, since I have barely updated them lately, and ask for their thoughts.
Tuesday, April 7
์ฌ์ค ๋ฐ๋ก ๋ด์ผ Shokat Lab์์ practice qual์ด ์์ด์ ์ค๋ Maggie์ ๋ฏธํ ์ดํ์๋ ๋ฐค๋ฆ๊ฒ๊น์ง board ์ค๋น๋ฅผ ํ๋ค. ์โฆ ์น ํ์ ์ง์ ์ ์ด๋ณด๋ ค๋ ์๊ฐ๋ณด๋ค ๋ ์ฝ์ง ์์๋๋ฐ ์ผ๋จ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ๋ ์ด์ฌํ ๋ค ์ฑ์ฐ๊ธด ํ๊ณ , ๋ด์ผ 3์์ ๋ฐํ๋ผ ์ค์ ๋ถํฐ ์ญ ์๊ฐ์ ์จ์ ๋ ๋ค๋ฌ์ด๋ณด๋ ค ํ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋๋ ์ ๊ธฐํ๋ฉด์ ๋คํ์ธ ๊ฒ์ ์ง๊ธ ์์ด๊ฐ ์ ๋ ๊น ๋ด ๊ฑฑ์ ์ด ์ฌํ๊ฒ ๋์ง๋ ์๋๋ค๋ ๊ฒ. ๋งจ ์ฒ์ new student orientation ๋ ํด์ผ ํ์๋ 15๋ถ ๋จ์ง์ chalk talk์ด ์ง๊ธ 2์๊ฐ์ง๋ฆฌ ๊ฒ๋ณด๋ค ํจ์ฌ ๋ถ๋ด์ด ๋์๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๋ค ใ ใ ๋ฌผ๋ก ๋ด๊ฐ ์ง๊ธ ๋ฐํํ๋ ๊ฑด ๋ด๊ฐ lab member ์ค์ ๊ฐ์ฅ ๋ง์ด ์๊ฐํ๊ณ ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ์์ด ํ์คํ๊ธฐ์ ๊ทธ๋ฐ ๊ฑธ ์๋.
Since I have a practice qual in the Shokat Lab tomorrow, after my meeting with Maggie I stayed up late preparing my board. Writing it out on an actual chalkboard was harder than I expected, but I did manage to fill everything in. My talk is at 3 p.m. tomorrow, so I plan to spend the whole morning refining it. One surprising and reassuring thing is that I am not panicking about my English not being good enough. The first chalk talk I had to do at new student orientation, which was only about 15 minutes, felt way more stressful than this two-hour one. That might also be because this is something I have thought about and worried over more than anyone else in the lab.
Wednesday, April 8
์ ๋๋ฌ๋คโฆ ํผ๋๋ฐฑ๊น์ง ๋์๊ฐ ๋ฐ ์ ๋ ๊ฑธ๋ ธ๋๋ฐ, ๋คํํ ๋ญ ๋๋ฌด ๋ชปํ๋ค๊ฑฐ๋ ๊ทธ๋ฐ ๋ถ๋ถ์ ์์๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๋ค. ๋ค๋ง ์ญ์ ๋ด ๊ฑฑ์ ๋๋ก ํ์ฐธ๋์ ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ๊ณ ๋ ๋ต์ด ๋ช ํํ๊ฒ ๋์ค์ง ์์๋ ๋ถ๋ถ์ ๋ํด์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ด ์ฌ์ง์์ด ๋ค์ด์๊ณ , ์ด๋ป๊ฒ๋ ๋ฐฉ์ด๋ ํ์ง๋ง ์ข ์ฐ์ฐํ๊ธด ํ๋ค. ์์งํ ๋งํ์๋ฉด ์ง๊ธ ๋ง aim1์ด ๋ง์์ ๋ค์ด์ ๋น์ฅ ํ๊ณ ์ถ์ ๊ทธ๋ฐ ๋๋์ ์๋๋คโฆ ๋ค๋ง ํ๋ฌ๋์ ์ด๋ฆฌ์ ๋ฆฌ ๋ถ๋ชํ๊ฐ๋ฉฐ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ๋ ๋ฐ๊พผ ๊ฑฐ๋ผ ์ง๊ธ ๋ ๋ฐ๊ฟ ์ฌ๋ ฅ์ ์ ํ ์๊ณ , ์๊ฒฉ์ํ์ ํต๊ณผํ ๋ค ๋ค์ ํ ๋ฒ ์ง์งํ๊ฒ ํ๊ฐํด์ผ ํ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๋ค๋ ์๊ฐ์ ๋ค์๋ค. ๊ฑฐ์ ํ๊น์น๊ฐ ๋์์ง๋ง ๋ด์ผ Huang lab์์ ๋ฐํ๊ฐ ์์ด์ ์๋ฃ๋ฅผ ๋ง๋ค๊ณ ์กฐ๊ธ ๋ฆ๊ฒ์์ผ ์ ์ ๋ค์๋ค.
It went well. The presentation plus feedback session took about two and a half hours, and fortunately it did not feel like I did terribly. Still, as I worried, I got direct questions about the parts I had thought about for a long time but still do not have a clear answer to. I defended as best as I could, but it still felt a bit unresolved. Honestly, Aim 1 is not something I am excited to start immediately. But after spending a month pushing and reshaping it through trial and error, I have no capacity to change it again right now. I think I will need to reevaluate it seriously after I pass the qualifying exam. I was exhausted, but since I have a talk in the Huang lab tomorrow, I made the slides and went to bed late.
Thursday, April 9
ํ์์ผ์ Maggie์ ์๋ ผํ๋ฉด์ ์๊ธด idea๋ฅผ Kevan์๊ฒ ๊ณต์ ํ๊ณ (aim1์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์กฐ๊ธ ์๋ณด๋ฉด ์ข์์ง ใ ใ ๋ฌผ๋ก qualifying exam ์ดํ์), ์คํ์ ๋ฐํ๋ ์ ๋ง์ณค๋ค. ๋๋๊ฒ๋ ์ํ๋ฉด ๋ฐ๋ก paper์ ์์์ ์ด ๋ ์๋ ์๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฒฌ๋ค์ ๋ง์ด ๋ฐ์์ collaboration์ ๋น์ฅ ์๋๋ฅผ ๋ด์ ์งํํด๋ณด๋ ค๊ณ ํ๋ค. ์ด๊ฒ ๋ด๊ฐ ์คํ์ ๋น์ฅ ํด์ผํ๋ ๊ฒ ์๋๊ณ ์ง๊ธ๊น์ง ํด์๋ ๋ฐ์ดํฐ๋ฅผ ์ ๋ฆฌํด์ ์ ๋ฌํ๋ฉด ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋ฉ์์ ์ด์ด์ ํ ์ ์๋ ์ ํ์ ์ฐ๊ตฌ๋ผ ๋ถ๋ด๋ ์๊ณ ์ข๋ค!
I shared with Kevan an idea that came up while I was talking with Maggie on Tuesday (about how I might tweak Aim 1 a bit, after the qualifying exam for sure), and I also finished my presentation this afternoon. Surprisingly, I got a lot of feedback that this could even become the starting point of a paper, so I want to move quickly and start the collaboration right away. The nice part is that I do not need to run new experiments immediately. I can organize and hand off the data I already have, and another lab can take it from there, so it feels low-burden in a good way.
Friday, April 10




์ค์ ์์
์ ์ Kevan์ ๋ง๋ ์์์ผ ๋ฐํ ์ดํ ๋ฐ์๋ ํผ๋๋ฐฑ๋ค์ ๊ฐ์ด ์๋
ผํด๋ณด์๋ค. ๋คํํ ์ง๊ธ๋ถํฐ๋ ์ง์ง ํฌ๊ฒ ๋ฐ๊ฟ ๊ฑด ์์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๋ค(์ ์ด๋ ์ํ ์ ๊น์ง๋). ์ด์ full proposal์ ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ์ฐ๊ณ ๊ณต์ ํ ์ผ๋ง ๋จ์๋ค.. ํ ๋ค์์ฃผ์ DeGrado Lab์์ ๋ฐํ๊ฐ ์์ด์ ๋น์ฅ ์ด๊ฒ๋ถํฐ ํด๊ฒฐํด์ผ ํ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๊ธดํ๋ฐ, ์ ๋ง ํ์ดํธํ๊ฒ ๋ฑ ์ค๋น๋ฅผ ๊ฒจ์ฐ ๋ง์น๊ณ ๋ณธ ์ํ์ ์น๋ฃฐ ์ ์์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๋ค. ์์
์ด ๋๋๊ณ ๋ ์ข
๋น์ด์ ์ค์๋๋(์ข
๋น์ด๋ ๋ง์ฐฌ๊ฐ์ง๋ก PSPG ๊ฐ์ํ๋
)์ genentech ๊ทผ์ฒ์ ์ค๋ฒ
(101 Oyster Point Blvd, South San Francisco, CA 94080)์ ๊ฐ์ ๊ณต๋ถ๋ฅผ ํ๋ค. ์์ฒญ ์กฐ์ฉํ๊ณ ๋ฐ๋ก ์์ ๋ง์๋ ์์์ ๋ค๋ ๋ถ์ด์๊ณ ์์ฃผ ๋ง์์ ๋ค์๋ค. ๋ ๋ค ๊ณง ์๊ฒฉ์ํ์ด ์ผ๋ง ๋จ์ง์์์ ์ข
์ข
๊ฐ๋ค๋๋ฐ ๋๋ ์ผ์ ๋ง์ผ๋ฉด ์ค๋์ฒ๋ผ ๊ฐ์ด ๋ค๋๊ธฐ๋ก! ์ง์ค์ด ์ ๋์๋๋ฐ ์ฌ์ค ๊ณ ๋ฐฑํ์๋ฉด ์ง๊ธ ๋น์ฅ ํ ํ์๋ ์๋ ์ผ์ ์ด์ง์ค์ ํด๋ฒ๋ ธ๋คโฆ(aim1์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์ํ ๋ค์ ๋ฐ๊พธ๋ฉด ์ข์์ง) ์ ์ ์ฐจ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋น์ฅ ๋ฐ๋ฑ์ ๋ถ๋ถํฐ ๋์.
Before class, I met with Kevan and we talked through the feedback I got after Wednesdayโs presentation. Fortunately, it seems like there is nothing major I need to change from this point, at least not before the exam. Now I just need to write the full proposal quickly and share it. Next week I also have a presentation in the DeGrado lab, so I probably need to deal with that first, and then I will barely manage to finish preparation right in time for the real exam. After class, I studied with Jongbin and Yoonseo (she is also PSPG, same year as Jongbin) at the Starbucks near Genentech (101 Oyster Point Blvd, South San Francisco, CA 94080). It was very quiet, and there are good restaurants right next door, so I really liked it. Since both of them have their quals coming up soon, they go there often, and I decided to join them when my schedule matches. I focused well, but to be honest I got hyper-focused on something I do not need to do right now, namely how I might change Aim 1 after the exam. I need to get it together and put out the fire that is right in front of me first.
Saturday, April 11

๋ฒ์จ ๋ค์ฏ๋ฒ์งธ long run. ๋น๊ฐ ์ถ์ถํ๊ฒ ์์ ๋ฐ์์ ์ผ๋ง ๋ชป๋ฐ๊ณ Gym์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ์ 7 miles ์ ๋ ๋ฐ๊ณ ๋น๊ฐ ๊ทธ์ณ์ ๋ค์ ๋ฐ์์ 9 miles๊น์ง ์ฑ์ ๋ค. ์๋ ๋ถ๋ช
treadmill์์ 9๋ถ ์ด๋ฐ๋๋ก ๋ฐ์๋๋ฐ ์ apple watch์๋ 10๋ถ 30์ด๋๋ก ๋จ๋๊ฐโฆ? ๋ญ ๊ณต๊ธฐ์ ํญ์ด๋ ์ด๋ฐ๊ฑธ ์๊ฐํ๋ฉด ์ด๊ฒ ๋ง์์๋ ์์ง๋ง ๋ญ๊ฐ ์ต์ธํ๋ค๐ณ ์ฌํผ ์ด๋ฉด์ 15km์ ๊ฐ๊น์ด ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ์ด๋ณผ๊ฑฐ๋ผ๊ณ ์๊ฐํด๋ณธ์ ์ด ์๋๋ฐ half๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๊ฒ๋๋ฉด ์ด๋ค ๊ธฐ๋ถ์ผ์ง ๊ถ๊ธํ๋ค. ์์งํ๊ฒ๋ full์ ๋์ ํ๊ณ ์ถ์ง๋ ์์๊ฒ, ๋ฌ๋์ด ์ฃผ๋ ํจ๊ณผ์ ๋นํด์ ๊ด์ ๋ฑ์ ์ฃผ๋ ์
์ํฅ์ด ๋ ์ปค์ง ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๋ค๋ ์๊ฐ(half๋ ์์งํ..? ใ
ใ
). ๋ฌผ๋ก ์์ฃผ ์ฒ์ฒํ ๋ณธ์ธ์ ์์ค์ ๋ง๊ฒ ๋ฐ๋ฉด ๋๋ค์ง๋ง ๋ํ๋ ๊ธฐ๋ก์ ์ํ๊ฒ๋ ์์ผ๋ ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ํ ์๋ ์๊ณ ํํ.. ์ด์ ๋ ํ์คํ๊ฒ ๋ฐฉํฅ์ ์ก๊ณ ํด์ผํ๋๊ฒ๋ค์ด ๋ฑ ์ ํด์ ธ์ ์ค๋๋ง์ ๋๋ฌด๋ ๋ง์ด ๋ฐ๋ฆฐ ๋ธ๋ก๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์ฒ์ฒํ ์จ๋๊ฐ๋ค. ๊ฑฐ์ 4-5์ฃผ ๊ฐ๊น์ด ๋ฐ๋ ธ๋๋ฐ ํ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ํ๋ค๋ณด๋ ์ฐธ ํ๋ฌ ๋์ ์ ์์ ๋ง์๊ณ ์ํ๋ฉด์๋ ๊ทธ๋๋ ์ด์ฐ์ด์ฐ ์ ๋ฒํ
จ๋๋ค๋ ์๊ฐ์ด ๋ค๊ณ , ๋ด๊ฐ ์๋ ํ๊ฒฝ์ ๋ค์ ํ ๋ฒ ๊ฐ์ฌํ๊ฒ ๋๋ค. ์ํ๊น์ง ํ๋ด๋ด์ผ์ง.
This was already our fifth long run. It was drizzly, so we could not run much outside at first. We went to the gym and ran about 7 miles. Then the rain stopped, so we went back out and ran another 2 miles to make it 9. But seriously, I was running in the low 9-minute range on the treadmill, so why does my Apple Watch show something like 10:30 per mile? Maybe if you account for air resistance and all that, it could make sense, but it still feels unfair. I never thought I would run close to 15 km in my life, so I am curious what it will feel like to actually run a half. Honestly, I do not want to attempt a full marathon, because I feel like the negative impact on joints and similar things would start to outweigh the benefits of running (and honestly, even the half, maybe๐ ). Of course, you can run slowly at your own level, but a race is also about time, so it is hard not to push. Now I finally have a clear direction and clear tasks to do, so for the first time in a while I slowly started writing the blog posts that I have been extremely behind on. I was behind by almost four to five weeks, and as I looked back, I realized that I went through a lot emotionally over the past month but still somehow held on. It made me feel grateful again for the environment I am in. I just need to hang in there until the exam.