I was reminded of Twitter on a meeting today. Watched my old graduation video. Realized how much fun undergrad was. Grad school was terrifying, but cool too. 2020 sucked, no debate.
POV: I am where I wanted to be years ago. I struggle to appreciate that.
Here's my story. I was c/o of 2017 and c/o of 2020 🎓.
In undergrad, ALL I wanted to do was go to grad school to be a biostatistician.
In grad school, ALL I wanted to do was be a data scientist.
I got the data scientist offer. Lost it cause 2020.
Me now: biostatistician. 😵💫
Here's a wholesome #geriatrics#biostatistics#statistics update from me... I recently worked on 2 projects where the papers are all done! I realize I've been dabbling in research for a long time, but ... I've never actually gotten this far. My team is just a whole herd of GOATs.
I love my job. It's cool/inspiring/EXCITING to learn all about #geriatrics through healthcare data.
But I'm ANGSTY RiiiIIIghTT now BeCaaauuuSEE I'm dealing with TYPOS Typ0s TYPOS TYYYPOS everywhere, so this data cleaning thing is my absoLutE personal H3LL.
But I mean, by the end of 2+ months, we iced our recruiter and had plenty of deep convos while our models busied our laptops.
And now we’re going as dates to @sub_re_tweets wedding. 💛
One feature I don’t have from WFH is coworker chitchat. I’m on & off meetings for subject matter only. 🤣 Which actually is so very me. It took me SO long to even have coworker convos with my Gap interns. Idk why? Shy? Too focused? I’m not really anti-social … 🙃
3 months in with UCSF now ➡️
I feel valued by my coworkers, am reasonably challenged by my projects, and believe my work to be impactful. 🥺 I’m definitely vibing & thriving & grateful.
Think the most maddening thing for me when working in other statistical programming languages is that I love to use @rstudio‘s side panel for tracking my subset dimensions... I feel empty without it