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My PhD Journey in the U.S. | Week 89 | 04/26/2026 โ€“ 05/02/2026

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Clear Pass๐ŸŽ‰



Sunday, April 26



๋‚ด์ผ์ด ๋Œ€๋ง์˜ ์‹œํ—˜์ด๋ผ ์˜ค๋Š˜์€ ๋Ÿฌ๋‹์„ ์‰ฌ๊ณ  ์ค€๋น„์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €๋… ๋จน๊ณ ๋Š” ๋‚ด์ผ ์‹œํ—˜์„ ๋ณด๋Š” ์žฅ์†Œ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์„œ, ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ฐจ๋ก€ ์ˆ˜์ •ํ•˜๋ฉฐ board๋ฅผ ์ตœ์ข… ์™„์„ฑํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ•œ ๋งŒํผ ๋‹ค ์Ÿ์•„๋‚ด๊ณ  ์™”์œผ๋ฉด.

Since tomorrow is finally the big exam, I skipped running today and focused on preparing. After dinner, I went to the room where I will take the exam tomorrow and finalized my board after revising it several times. I hope I can pour out everything I have worked for.



Monday, April 27



Pass! ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•ด์„œ์ธ์ง€ ์‚ฌ์‹ค ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ง€๋‚ฌ๋Š”์ง€๋„ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ๋‹ค. โ€œclear passing with flying colorsโ€๋ผ๋Š” ์นญ์ฐฌ๋„ ๋“ฃ๊ณ , ์ฐธ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ์ซ“๊ฒจ๋‚  ์ผ์€ ์ •๋ง ์—†๊ณ , ๋‚ด ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์— ๋งค์ง„ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋‹ˆโ€ฆ ํ–‰๋ณตํ•˜๋‹ค. ํ—ˆ๋‚˜ ๋ญ๋ž„๊นŒ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒŒ ํ•ด๋ฐฉ๋œ ๋А๋‚Œ์€ ์•„๋‹Œ ๊ฒŒ, ์ด์ œ ๋ณธ๊ฒฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ๊ฐ€๋“ํ•œ๋ฐ ์•„์ง โ€œํ™•์‹คโ€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ญ˜ ์šฐ์„ ์‹œํ•ด์•ผ ํ• ์ง€ ์ •ํ•ด์ง€์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์˜ ์ถ•ํ•˜๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์œผ๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ๋ญ๋ž„๊นŒ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์ง„ ๊ฑด ์—†์—ˆ๋‹ค ์†”์งํ•˜๊ฒŒ ใ…‹ใ…‹ใ…‹.. ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„ ํ‰์˜จํ•œ ๋งˆ์Œ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚ด์šฉ ์ •๋ฆฌ ์ข€ ํ•˜๋‹ค๊ฐ€, ๊ฐ„๋‹จํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ข‹์€ ๋‚ ์— ๋ฐ–์—์„œ ํŒŒ์ด๋กœ ์ ์‹ฌ์„ ๋จน์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์ดํ›„์—” subgroup meeting์— ์ฐธ์„ํ•˜๊ณ , ๋’ค์— ์žˆ๋Š” ์„ธ๋ฏธ๋‚˜๊นŒ์ง€ ์•Œ์ฐจ๊ฒŒ ๋“ฃ๊ณ  ์šด๋™๊นŒ์ง€ ์ž˜ ๋‹ค๋…€์™”๋‹ค. ๋‚˜๋„ ๋‚˜๋ฆ„๋Œ€๋กœ ์ƒ๊ฐ์„ ์ •๋ฆฌํ•œ ํ›„ ๋นจ๋ฆฌ Bill๊ณผ Kevan์„ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๋ด์•ผ๊ฒ ๋‹ค.

Pass! I was so focused that I honestly do not even know how the time passed. I even received the compliment that it was a โ€œclear passing with flying colors,โ€ and it was such a moving moment. Now I really do not have to worry about being kicked out, and I can fully focus on my researchโ€ฆ I am happy. But somehow, it does not feel like everything has been completely released, because I am full of desire to really start running now, but I still have not โ€œclearlyโ€ decided what I should prioritize. So even while receiving congratulations from many people, honestly, it did not feel like something had dramatically changed.. Still, with a peaceful mind, I organized my thoughts a bit and had a simple lunch outside with pie on this good day. After that, I attended a subgroup meeting, stayed for the seminar afterward, and even went to the gym. I should organize my thoughts on my own and meet Bill and Kevan soon.



Tuesday, April 28



์˜ค๋Š˜์€ Maggie์™€ ์˜ค๋žœ๋งŒ์— ๋ฏธํŒ…์„ ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ๋ญ˜ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ• ์ง€ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์„ฑ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์–˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ•ด๋ดค๋‹ค. Maggie๊ฐ€ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ์™€ ์–ด์ฐŒ ๋ณด๋ฉด ๋‹ฎ์•„ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ถ„๋„ ์žˆ์–ด์„œ, ์ตœ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฒน์น˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋ ค๊ณ  ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ•ด๋ด์•ผ ํ•  ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™๋‹ค. ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์ฒซ protein design pipeline์„ ์ง  ๊ฒŒ ๊ฑฐ์˜ 6๊ฐœ์›”์ด ๋‹ค ๋˜์–ด๊ฐ€๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด ๋ฐ˜๋…„ ๋™์•ˆ ์ˆ˜๋งŽ์€ ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์ด ํŠ€์–ด๋‚˜์™€์„œ ์‹œ๋„ํ•ด๋ด์•ผ ํ•  ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์ด ๋งŽ์ด ๋Š˜์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„ end user๋กœ์„œ๋Š” ํ–‰๋ณตํ•œ ๊ณ ๋ฏผ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฏฟ๋Š”๋‹ค. ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ ๋…ผ๋ฌธ์„ ์ฝ๊ณ  ๊ณต๋ถ€ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์•„์ด๋””์–ด๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค๋ฉฐ ํ•˜๋ฃจ๋ฅผ ๋๋ƒˆ๊ณ , ์ €๋…์—๋Š” DeGrado Lab์˜ ๊น€๋ฐ•์‚ฌ๋‹˜๊ณผ (์•„๋งˆ ์ €๋…์€ ์ฒ˜์Œ์ธ ๋“ฏํ•˜๋‹ค๐Ÿค”), ์ €๋…์„ ๋จน์œผ๋Ÿฌ ๊ฐ”๋‹ค. ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ฒŒ๋„ ๋ง›์žˆ๋Š” ํ•œ์‹์ง‘ (์ด๋ฆ„์ด ํŠน์ดํ•˜๋‹ค; 707 Sutter, 707 Sutter St, San Francisco, CA 94109)๋ฅผ ์†Œ๊ฐœํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๊ณ  ๋ฐฅ๋„ ์‚ฌ์ฃผ์…”์„œ (ํ•ญ์ƒ ์ž˜ ์ฑ™๊ฒจ์ฃผ์‹ ๋‹ค ใ… ใ… ), ๋ชธ ๋‘˜ ๋ฐ”๋ฅผ ๋ชฐ๋ž๋‹ฌ๊นŒ.. ์ด๋ฒˆ์— ์ž๊ฒฉ์‹œํ—˜ ์ค€๋น„ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ํ•ญ์ƒ ์—ด๋ฆฐ ๋งˆ์Œ์œผ๋กœ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์–˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด์ฃผ์‹œ๊ณ  ์˜๊ฒฌ์„ ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ์ •๋ง ํฐ ๋„์›€์„ ๋ฐ›์•˜๋‹ค (๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค). ์•„์ฃผ ๋ฐฐ๋ถ€๋ฅด๊ณ  ๋ง›์žˆ๊ฒŒ ์ž˜ ๋จน๊ณ , ํ‘น ์‰ฐ ํ•˜๋ฃจ.

Today, I had a meeting with Maggie for the first time in a while, and we talked about several possible directions for what I should do next. Some parts are somewhat similar to Maggieโ€™s project, so I think I will need to avoid as much overlap as possible. It has been almost six months since I built my first protein design pipeline, and during this half year, so many new things have come out that the number of things I want to try has increased a lot. Still, as an end user, I believe this is a happy dilemma. I ended the day by reading papers, studying, and developing ideas. In the evening, I went to dinner with Dr. Kim from the DeGrado Lab, probably for the first time. Thankfully, he introduced me to a delicious Korean restaurant, with a unique name, 707 Sutter, 707 Sutter St, San Francisco, CA 94109, and even treated me to dinner. He takes such good care of me, and I have received so much from him, so I almost did not know how to respond.. While I was preparing for the qualifying exam, he always listened to my research ideas with an open mind and gave me thoughtful feedback, which helped me tremendously. Thank you. I ate very well, got very full, and had a restful day.

Wednesday, April 29



์˜ค๋Š˜์€ visiting scholar๋กœ ์˜จ ์นœ๊ตฌ์˜ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ DGL group meeting์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฒŒ์จ ๋ฐ˜๋…„์ด ๋„˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ๋ฏฟ๊ธฐ์ง€ ์•Š์„ ์ •๋„์ธ๋ฐ, ์žฌ๋ฏธ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ์ž˜ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ณด๋‹ˆ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ€์„œ๋„ ์ญ‰ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์ž˜ ์ด์–ด๋‚˜๊ฐˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฑฐ๋ผ ๋ฏฟ๋Š”๋‹ค. ์ ์‹ฌ์€ ์กฐ๋ฐ•์‚ฌ๋‹˜์ด ์‚ฌ์ฃผ์…จ๋Š”๋ฐ, ํ€„ ํ†ต๊ณผํ•œ ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ๋”๋ถˆ์–ด ์ž ๊น ํฌ๋‹ฅ์œผ๋กœ ๊ณ„์‹  ํ•œ๊ตญ์ธ ๋ฐ•์‚ฌ๋‹˜์ด ์ทจ์ง์„ ํ•˜์…”์„œ! ์ถ•ํ•˜ ๊ธฐ๋…์œผ๋กœ ์˜์…จ๋‹ค. Burma Love (151 Warriors Wy suite 105, San Francisco, CA 94158)๋ผ๋Š” Chase Center ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์˜† Asian ์‹๋‹น์ธ๋ฐ, ์ƒ๊ฐ๋ณด๋‹ค ์ € ์ƒ๋Ÿฌ๋“œ๊ฐ€ ๋ง›์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” 2.5/5์  ์ •๋„..? ์˜คํ›„์—๋Š” ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์ „์— ํ–ˆ๋˜ ๋””์ž์ธ์„ filterํ•ด์„œ ์ตœ์ข… 12๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ๊ณจ๋ž๊ณ , ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋” ํ›„๋ณด๊ตฐ์„ ์–ป์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ filter๋ฅผ ํ†ต๊ณผํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•œ ๋””์ž์ธ์„ ๋‹ค์‹œ redesignํ•˜๋Š” ์•Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ˜์„ ์งœ๊ณ  ์„ค์น˜๋ฅผ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ์„œ์˜ ์˜ˆ์‹œ๋Š” ์—†์–ด์„œ ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ์ž˜ ํ†ตํ• ์ง€๋Š” ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ๋Š”๋ฐ, ๋…ผ๋ฌธ์— ์˜ํ•˜๋ฉด ๊ฐ•์ ์ด ํ™•์‹คํ•œ ๊ฑด ๋งž๊ธฐ์— ๋ฏฟ๊ณ  ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•ด๋ณด๋ ค ํ•œ๋‹ค ใ…Žใ…Ž.. ๋˜ thesis idea์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋„ ์ญ‰ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋‹ˆ ํ•˜๋ฃจ๊ฐ€ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์ˆœ์‹๊ฐ„์— ์ง€๋‚˜๊ฐ”๋‹ค. ์ €๋…์—๋Š” An๊ณผ Sophie์˜ practice talk์ด ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ์ฐธ์„ํ•˜๊ณ , ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ์–˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋“ฃ๋Š” ๊ฑด ์–ธ์ œ๋‚˜ ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กญ๋‹ค. ์•„๋งˆ ๋‚ด์šฉ์ด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋‹ค๋ฅด์ง€๋Š” ์•Š์•„์„œ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๊ฑธ ์ˆ˜๋„, ํ•˜๋ฃจ๋ฅผ ์ž˜ ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Today, we had the final DGL group meeting for a friend who came as a visiting scholar. It is hard to believe that more than half a year has already passed, but seeing how much fun she had doing research makes me believe that she will continue doing great research after she goes back. Jo bought us lunch, both to celebrate my passing the qual and because a Korean postdoc who is here briefly also got a job! We went to Burma Love, 151 Warriors Wy suite 105, San Francisco, CA 94158, an Asian restaurant right next to Chase Center. The salad was better than I expected. Overall, maybe around 2.5/5..? In the afternoon, I filtered the designs I had made before and selected the final 12. I also wrote and installed an algorithm to redesign the designs that did not pass the filter so I can get a few more candidates. There is no exact example for the way I want to use it, so I am not sure if it will work well, but according to the paper, its strengths are clear, so I will trust it and try using it. I also kept thinking about thesis ideas, and the day passed so quickly. In the evening, I attended An and Sophieโ€™s practice talks. Listening to people talk about research is always interesting. Maybe it is because the topics are not too different from mine. It was a good way to wrap up the day.



Thursday, April 30



์–ด์ฐŒ ๋งค์ฃผ ๋ชฉ์š”์ผ๋งˆ๋‹ค ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์€๋ฐ ใ…‹ใ…‹ ์˜ค๋Š˜๋„ ์ข…๋นˆ์ด์™€ ์œค์„œ ๋ˆ„๋‚˜์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ผ์„ ํ•˜๋Ÿฌ ๊ฐ”๋‹ค (์ด๋ฒˆ์—” Timber + Tide๋กœ ๋ฐ”๋กœ). ์ ์‹ฌ ์งฑ๋ง›. ๊ณ„์† ์ผ์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์„œ ๋ฏธ๋ค„์™”๋˜ ์žก๋‹คํ•œ ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์„ ์ •๋ฆฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ฒซ task๋Š” ์„ธ๊ธˆ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ถ„๋ช… federal tax return์€ ์ˆ˜์‹  ํ™•์ธ์ด ๋˜์–ด์„œ ๋‚˜์—๊ฒŒ ์‹ค๋ฌผ ํ™•์ธ์ฆ์ด ์šฐํŽธ์œผ๋กœ ์™”์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, state tax return์€ ์•ˆ ์™”์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณ„์† ๋ฏธ๋ฃจ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ์˜ค๋Š˜ ๋ณด๋‹ˆ๊นŒ, ์•„๋‹ˆ? USPS์—์„œ ํ™•์ธํ•ด๋ณด๋‹ˆ 3์›” 22์ผ์— tracking์ด ๋ฉˆ์ถ˜ ๊ฒŒ ์•„๋‹Œ๊ฐ€? ๊ฑฐ์˜ 2,600๋ถˆ ์ •๋„ ํ™˜๊ธ‰๋ฐ›์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฑธ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ธก๋์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ๋‹นํ™ฉ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ธฐ ๊ทธ์ง€์—†์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ผ๋‹จ ์šฐํŽธ ๋ถ„์‹ค ์‹ ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ํ•˜๊ณ  California FTB์— ์—ฐ๋ฝํ•ด๋ดค์œผ๋‚˜ ์ „ํ™”๋‚˜ chat๋„ ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์•„์„œ ๋ฉ˜ํƒˆ์ด ๊ฐˆ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ค‘, ๊ตฌ๊ธ€๋ง์„ ์ข€ ํ•ด๋ณด๊ณ  ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ํ˜น์‹œ๋‚˜ ํ™˜๊ธ‰ ํ™•์ธ์„ ๋จผ์ € ํ•ด๋ณด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•ด์„œ Chase๋ฅผ ํ™•์ธํ•ด๋ดค๋”๋‹ˆ ์•„๋‹ˆ ใ…‹ใ…‹ ๋“ค์–ด์™€ ์žˆ๋˜ ๊ฒŒ ์•„๋‹Œ๊ฐ€. ๋ฉ์ฒญํ•˜๊ธฐ ๊ทธ์ง€์—†๋‹ค. ์ข…์ข… tracking์€ ์•ˆ ๋˜์ง€๋งŒ ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ์ˆ˜์‹ ์€ ํ–ˆ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ โ€ฆ ํ˜น์‹œ๋‚˜ ๋ถ„์‹ค์ด ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด ๋˜ ๋ณด๋‚ด์•ผ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ข€ ์ฐ์ฐํ•œ ๊ฒƒ๋„ (3์›” ์ดˆ์— ๋ณด๋ƒˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋ฐœ์†ก ์ฆ๋ช…์ด ์žˆ์–ด deadline์ธ 4์›” 15์ผ์€ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์ง€๋งŒ ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„) ์žˆ์—ˆ์„ ํ…๋ฐ ์ •๋ง ๋‹คํ–‰.

Somehow it feels like we go every Thursday๐Ÿ˜›, but today I went to study again with ์ข…๋นˆ and ์œค์„œ. This time we went straight to Timber + Tide, and lunch was so good. Since I kept wanting to work, I had been putting off a lot of miscellaneous tasks, so I organized them today. The first task was taxes. My federal tax return had definitely been confirmed as received, and I even got the physical receipt by mail, but I had not received anything for my state tax return. I kept putting it off, but when I checked today, what? USPS tracking had stopped on March 22. I was supposed to get a refund of almost 2,600$, so I was extremely flustered. First, I filed a missing mail report and tried to contact the California FTB, but neither phone nor chat worked, so I was mentally falling apart. After some Googling, people suggested checking whether the refund had already arrived, so I checked Chase and, wait๐Ÿ˜…, it was already there. So dumb of me. Apparently, sometimes tracking does not update even though the mail was actually receivedโ€ฆ If it had been lost, I would have had to send it again, and it would have felt uncomfortable, even though I had proof that I mailed it in early March, so the April 15 deadline would not have been a major issue. Still, I am really relieved.



๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์ผ์€ Shokat Lab webpage ๊ด€๋ฆฌ. ์ตœ๊ทผ์— domain hosting์„ UCSF ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•˜์—์„œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์„œ (๋ณด์•ˆ ๋ฌธ์ œ ๋“ฑ) ์ด์ „์„ ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ์•„๋‹ˆ ์ง€๊ธˆ๊นŒ์ง€ ์˜ฌ๋ ธ๋˜ PDF accessibility๊ฐ€ UCSF ๊ธฐ์ค€์— ๋งž์ง€ ์•Š์•„ ์ „๋ถ€ ์ˆ˜์ •์„ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹Œ๊ฐ€? ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ด ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•˜๋А๋ผ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๋งŽ์ด ๋ณด๋ƒˆ๋‹ค. ์ผ๋‹จ vendor๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด batch remediationํ•˜๋Š” ์ชฝ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ ์ง€๋Š” ์ž˜ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ๋‹ค. ์ง€๊ธˆ๊นŒ์ง€ ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„์œผ๋กœ๋Š” 7๋…„ ๋™์•ˆ ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธ๋ฅผ ์•ˆ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•œ๋‹ค..๐Ÿ˜… ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ์ฃผ์‹์ธ๋ฐ, ์ตœ๊ทผ์— (์‚ฌ์‹ค ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ ์ตœ๊ทผ์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค) ์•ก๋ฉด๋ถ„ํ• ์ด ๋œ ์ข…๋ชฉ์ด ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ๋งค์ˆ˜/๋งค๋„ ๊ธฐ์ค€ daily trackingํ•˜๋Š” ๋กœ์ง์„ ์ข€ ์†๋ด์•ผ ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ƒ ๋Œ€๊ฐ• ๊ฐ์œผ๋กœ (๋ฌผ๋ก  ๋ณด์ˆ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ) ๋งค์ˆ˜/๋งค๋„๋ฅผ ํ•ด์™”๋‹ค. ์ž˜ ํ’€๋ฆฌ๊ธด ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„ ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ์ •ํ•ด๋‘” ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ์ญ‰ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ๋‚˜์„ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™๊ณ , ๊ธฐ๋ก๋„ ์–ด์ฐจํ”ผ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์„œ ์˜ค๋Š˜ ๋งˆ์นจ๋‚ด ์†์„ ๋ดค๋‹ค.. ์žก์ผ?์ด ๋๋‚˜๊ณ  ๊ณง ์žˆ์„ ๋ฏธํŒ…(side project)์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋‚ด์šฉ์„ ์ •๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‹ค์‹œ Bay๋กœ ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ”๋‹ค. ๋ฏธํŒ…์„ ์ž˜ ๋๋‚ด๊ณ , ๋‹คํ–‰ํžˆ ๋‚ด ๋™๊ธฐ๋„ ์˜ค๋Š˜ ํ€„์„ ์ž˜ ํ†ต๊ณผํ•ด์„œ DGL ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๊ณผ ์ถ•ํ•˜ ํŒŒํ‹ฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ”๋‹ค. ์›๋ž˜ ๋ณดํ†ต ํ•œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ์ง‘์— ๊ฐ€๊ณค ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด์ œ ๋งˆ์Œ๋„ ์ข€ ํŽธํ•ด์ ธ์„œ ์ฒ˜์Œ์œผ๋กœ ๋๊นŒ์ง€ ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ  ์ •๋ง ์žฌ๋ฏธ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜์–ด ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ๋‚ด ๋งˆ์Œ๊ฐ€์ง๊ณผ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์ด ๋ถ€์กฑํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‚˜ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด๋ณด๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋Š” ํ•˜๋ฃจ์˜€๋‹ฌ๊นŒ.

The second task was managing the Shokat Lab webpage. Recently, we moved the domain hosting under UCSF management because we wanted UCSF to manage it, for security and other reasons. But then, it turned out that the accessibility of the PDFs uploaded so far did not meet UCSF standards, so all of them need to be fixed. I spent a lot of time trying to solve this issue. For now, we probably need to go with batch remediation through a vendor, but I am not sure how things will go. Apparently, this part had not been updated for seven years..๐Ÿ˜… The last task was stocks. Recently, though actually not that recently, one of the stocks I track had a stock split, so I needed to adjust the logic for daily tracking based on my buy/sell standards. In reality, I had been buying and selling mostly by feel, though conservatively. It worked out well, but I still think it is better to consistently follow clearly defined standards, and I needed to record everything anyway, so I finally fixed it today.. After finishing these miscellaneous tasks, I organized materials for an upcoming meeting, a side project, and went back to the Bay. The meeting went well, and fortunately, my cohort member also passed the qual today, so I went to a celebration party with DGL people. Usually, I would stay for about an hour and then just go home, but now that I feel a bit more relaxed, I stayed until the end for the first time, and it was really fun. It was a day that made me wonder whether I had been blaming English too much, when maybe my mindset and effort were also not enough.



Friday, May 1

์ผ์–ด๋‚ฌ๋”๋‹ˆ ๋“œ๋””์–ด 2์›”์— ์ œ์ถœํ–ˆ๋˜ ๋…ผ๋ฌธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ revision์ด ์™”๋‹ค! Editor๊ฐ€ reviewer๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๋Š” ๋ฐ ๊ณ ์ƒ์„ ํ•ด์„œ ๋Šฆ์–ด์ ธ์„œ ๋ฏธ์•ˆํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•ด์คฌ๋Š”๋ฐ, ๋‹คํ–‰ํžˆ๋„ ๋‚ด์šฉ์„ ๋งˆ์Œ์— ๋“ค์–ด ํ–ˆ๊ณ , minor revision ์ดํ›„์— ๊ฒŒ์žฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•œ๋‹ค. ์šด์ด ์ข‹๊ฒŒ๋„ ์ „์— Kevan๊ณผ ์–˜๊ธฐํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋กœ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•œ ์‹คํ—˜์ด reviewer์˜ ํ•œ comment๋ฅผ ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•˜๊ณ , ์—„์ฒญ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ๋˜ ์‹คํ—˜์„ ๋” ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ํ•  ๊ฑด ์—†์–ด ๋ณด์—ฌ์„œ ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ ์ฃผ๋ง ๋‚ด๋‚ด ํ•˜๋ฉด ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์ œ์ถœํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์ง€ ์•Š์„๊นŒ ์‹ถ๋‹ค. ์˜คํ›„์—๋Š” ๋‚˜๋ฅผ ํฌํ•จํ•ด์„œ ๋‘ ๋ช…์˜ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด PhD candidate, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋‹ค์Œ ์ฃผ์— ๋– ๋‚˜๋Š” visiting scholar๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ party(picnic)์—์„œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๋ณด๋ƒˆ๋‹ค. ์ƒดํŽ˜์ธ ๋ณ‘์— ํ†ต๊ณผํ•œ ๋‚ ๊ณผ ์ด๋ฆ„์„ ์ ๊ณ  ํ•™์œ„ ๊ณผ์ • ๋‚ด๋‚ด ๊ฐ„์งํ•˜๋ผ๋Š”๋ฐ ใ…‹ใ…‹ใ…‹ ๋ญ”๊ฐ€ ์‹ค๊ฐ์ด ๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•˜๊ณ . ์š”์ฆ˜ ๊ณ„์† ์ €๋…์— ์ผ์ •์ด ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ๋Ÿฌ๋‹์„ ๋ชปํ–ˆ๊ธฐ์—, ์˜ค๋Š˜์€ ์ผ์ฐ ์ž๋ฆฌ์—์„œ ์ผ์–ด๋‚˜ ๊ธฐ๋ถ„ ์ข‹๊ฒŒ ๋Ÿฌ๋‹์„ ๋›ฐ๊ณ  ํ‘น ์ž˜ ์žค๋‹ค.

When I woke up, the revision for the paper I submitted in February had finally arrived! The editor apologized for the delay, saying they had a hard time finding reviewers, but thankfully, they liked the content and said it should be publishable after minor revisions. Luckily, an additional experiment I had done after discussing it with Kevan before can address one of the reviewerโ€™s comments, and it does not seem like we need to do any huge additional experiments. So if I work hard through the weekend, I think we may be able to submit it quickly. In the afternoon, I spent time at another party, a picnic, for two new PhD candidates including me and a visiting scholar who is leaving next week. They told us to write the date we passed and our names on a champagne bottle and keep it throughout the degree. Somehow, it made things feel a little more real. Since I have had plans in the evenings recently and could not run, I left the gathering early today, went for a pleasant run, and slept well.



Saturday, May 2

์˜ค๋Š˜ revision์„ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๋๋ƒˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฐ process๊ฐ€ ์ „๋ถ€ ์ฒ˜์Œ์ด๋‹ค ๋ณด๋‹ˆ ์ฐธ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์„ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด ๊ณผ์ •์„ ๊ฒช์„์ˆ˜๋ก ์„ธ์ƒ์— ๋‚˜์™€ ์žˆ๋Š” ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋…ผ๋ฌธ๋“ค์ด ๋˜ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ๋Œ€๋‹จํ•œ ๊ฑด์ง€ ์—ฌ์‹คํžˆ ๊นจ๋‹ซ๋Š” ์ค‘์ด๋‹ค. ํ’ˆ์ด ์ฐธ ๋งŽ์ด ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ณผ์ •์ด๋ž„๊นŒ. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ถœํŒ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด (ํŠนํžˆ ๊ณผํ•™์€) ์—„๊ฒฉํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ์ดํ•ด๊ฐ€ ๋˜๊ธฐ์— ์ด ๊ณผ์ •๋„ ์•„์ฃผ ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•œ๋‹ค. ์•„๋งˆ ๋‚ด์ผ Kevan๊ณผ Qinheng์ด ๋‹ต์žฅ์„ ์ฃผ๋Š” ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋˜ ์ˆ˜์ •์„ ํ•˜๊ณ , ํฐ ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์—†์œผ๋ฉด ๊ณง ์ œ์ถœํ•  ๋“ฏ์‹ถ๋‹ค.

I almost finished the revision today. Since this whole process is new to me, I am learning a lot, and the more I go through it, the more clearly I realize how impressive the papers out in the world really are. It is such a labor-intensive process. But I fully understand why publishing, especially in science, needs to be rigorous, so I think this process is very important too. Once Kevan and Qinheng reply tomorrow, I will probably revise it again, and if there are no major issues, we should be able to submit it soon.