I am feeling down for about an hour. My industrial training program (ITP) is ending. I am not sad for that, nor am I happy. It’s okay that it is ending.
I need to submit a report at the end of this ITP. I have been working on lipoprotein metabolism. I don’t understand most parts of it. I am doing the manual work type of things. Basically, I’ll take the values and play around until the model predicts the right result.
It seemed like an easy job. But it takes a lot of time. My only regret through this project is that I made poor use of time. I have a lot of extra time. I use it on the wrong things. I have read many articles. I could have selected them better.
Let me give you an example.
As you know, I am working on lipoprotein. I use FORTRAN to aid in the testing of the models. Instead of reading more about lipoprotein, I spend time learning FORTRAN and reading articles related to FORTRAN. And I over-read it. That is unnecessary and I suffer with the problem that I don’t know much things about the relations of high density lipoprotein with - say - insulin resistance now.
What I am supposed to do a to tweak the variables and attempt to archieve a better fit for the lipoprotein subfractions HDL3, HDL2, VLDL1, VLDL2, LDL-I and LCL-III that can correspond to that of a normal human being. After archieving that, I am to tweak specific variables that I don’t remember to archieve a good fit that represents an insulin-resistance patient.
My problem is with the report. I don’t know how to start it. At the end of the first half of the day, I typed less than five hundred words. I look at the monitor and the monitor just stares back into my tired eyes.
It’s just not working out right. I need to do the report badly. I have no idea how to start. 
[By the way, this is not a secret project or anything and I have consulted my supervisor regarding this. I can speak to anyone regarding what I do for this project. No IP involved.]
Tags: biology, biopolis, programming, work