↬ May 13, 2014

[knightly]

[WARDED TO ASHER GUTHRIE]
Hi. Are you busy
I need to talk to you
I have an idea, and you're not going to like it

[...] How's your senior project going?

[WARDED TO DIEGO MORALES]
Hello. Are you all having fun out there?

Comments

Ravi/Asher

[knightly]

Thank you. I only nag because I love you.

Well, he suggested I could make a presentation on my findings so far, in hopes of attracting a company that can do proper clinical trials. But that seems rather underwhelming, especially when other people have working prototypes of their projects.

Our projects are due mid-June, so we have a month, and I'd rather be using that month to work on my paper, and this presentation... Not to mention, studying for exams? I mean, it might not be that dangerous. None of the mice have gotten hurt.

Ravi/Asher

[guthriegazette]

You know, you always say that, but it's pretty relentless nagging...

You've done a lot of good work, though - just because it feels underwhelming doesn't mean it's not serious progress that's worth recognition. Maybe do as much as the write-up as you can without results while you've got the ball rolling on trying to get a clinical trial? That way if it comes through you just need to do some result write-up, and if it ends up being to cumbersome to get trials you'll have something ready to go with work so far?

As for testing on yourself, I mean, it's less dangerous than testing it without having run trials on mice first, but still. I assume ingredient proportions need to be different between humans and mice, so it might not go right on the first try, plus without the structure and failsafes of a trail you're just asking for trouble.

[...]

You're not honestly considering that as an option, are you?

Ravi/Asher

[knightly]

You'll miss it when it's gone.

You're right, I suppose. I've done quite a bit of work on my report already, but I could spend some time fine-tuning it. You know me, I just hate trying to plan around uncertainties, especially when the deadline's fast coming up.

[...] No, no, no, no. Of course not. I'd need to [...] sort out more of the details. Mr. Elmasry approved of my reformulation for human usage, but he said there's still quite a few unknown factors. [...] I'm not that reckless, I promise.

Ravi/Asher

[guthriegazette]

I will very much miss it. We'll keep in contact, though, so I'll just have to deal with long-distance nagging instead of in-my-face nagging.

I know it's less than ideal, but what you've done is amazing; don't let your over-achieving brain talk you out of that. You can run things by me if you want, and I can read over your report? It's the least I can do - we can have one last act of mutual suffering before we have to go out into the world.

[...]

And yeah, I know you're not that reckless.