Lemon things with English communication

when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. (Although I don’t understand why lemon is necessarily a bad fruit, lemonade does sound more tempting than lemon. I refer those “not necessarily bad things” as “lemon things”) One of the frustrating things about being an international student here is about communication. Growing up in China, I lear... Read more 21 Nov 2020 - 2 minute read

Transition to full-time Broadie

I graduated this May from HSPH with MS in Computational Biology and started new journey as full-time ACB at Getz lab where I did my thesis. I thought things could be smoothier since I am not technically a “new grad”, however I did learn some lessons that I feel confortable sharing. (It’s my first Engish post, please let me know if you found my ... Read more 06 Nov 2020 - 5 minute read

抱紧新生活:hugs:

前一阵是西浦毕业典礼的日子，看朋友圈让人感到极大舒适，不禁感慨时光飞逝。今天手痒，就随手写一点话，分享一下自己成功或失败的经历给学弟学妹吧～也许很累读研也许很辛苦也许很轻松 - 这和项目、个人风格都有关系。如果你过得很累 - 抱住可怜的自己 - 你不孤独！我记得读研的第一学期我每天只能睡五小时左右，记得intro to statistical inference的课总是感觉没完全懂，不得不经常找汪学神吐槽（t-distribution有什么现实意义？）。后来和原来的朋友聊天，发现这其实很常见，尤其是如果你要转专业的话。即便你不是一个major change,比如从bio到bioeng，或者像我从bio到compbio，都会或多或少在学业上有点挑战 - 毕竟我真的不是很适合上课写... Read more 31 Jul 2019 - less than 1 minute read

What defines you as a researcher?

上次被问这么尖锐的问题是在见Micheal Baym教授时。我小心翼翼地准备着阅读他的paper，想着哪些问题是我可以做的（而且还是有可能在两年之内做完的）。晚上五点二十，我在countway三楼 Biomedical Informatics的lab门口徘徊，进去见到了Baym教授。此时他正在和其他fellow讨论JayZ和beetles之前可能合作的一个专辑，他非常有激情但又沉静，两位fellow眼里也带着光。环顾四周，场景很像之前在p323，桌椅也很相似只不过空间大了七八倍，不同的PI分布在小隔间，外面是所有学生的桌子。我很喜欢这样的感觉，不同组可以愉快地share想法。进去他的办公室第一眼看到了一个3D模型 - 两个×十分对称的×subunit结合在一个黑色片段上 - 我... Read more 14 Nov 2018 - less than 1 minute read

About the Author

Hi there I am Qing, “mostly harmless” second-year master student in computational biology and quantitative genetics in Harvard school of public health. My research interest in characterizing genetic variants. I am now developing an R package for germline risk prediction from family history in BayesMendel Lab at Dana-farber cancer institute, in ... Read more 04 Oct 2018 - less than 1 minute read