Word: jin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...data, no results, no conclusion. After eleven months of setting up experiments, preparing solutions and media, learning techniques and adjusting protocols, it was as if he were starting from scratch. "It's easy to give up unless you really believe it's what you want to do," says Se-jin Lee of his biochemistry research experience...
...been a struggle. "Whatever can go wrong, will." Se-jin believes. "You've got to keep telling yourself today is the day it will work. And then you've got to get incredibly lucky." Is he superstitious? "There's not time for prayers," he chuckles...
...just "another person in the crowd." He found the faculty unapproachable and the department providing little information for prospective researchers. But he knew, even without any experience, that he had an interest in the lab. So Se-jin took the matter into his own hands. "Nobody realizes how easy it is to get into research here," he says. "I had no idea." So he arbitrarily called one professor at the medical school whose work sounded vaguely interesting. "It never struck me that anyone would have me in their lab," he confesses. But once in, he was hooked...
...small lab: one professor, one post-doctoral candidate, one technician, and one Se-jin. A new home. "When you're a grad student it's important to be in the mainstream, to be in a high powered lab," he notes. "When you're an undergrad, it's important to get into a lab where the head person cares about you, where they are supportive and encouraging. My professor never closed his office door. He was constantly wandering about the lab. I was immediately a part of the work, which is more important than being with a name professor." Words...
Indeed, only 100 miles to the southwest of Jin Ma, in one of the province's many hilly regions, the picture is far different. On the remote Long Chi (Dragon's Pond) commune, perched on the lower slopes of 9,000-ft-high Mount Emei, the soil is rocky and dry. Farming is confined to low-yielding terraces that have been carved out of the hills and planted primarily with corn. Peasant incomes are one-third of those on the wealthy Jin Ma commune; they average $44 a year, more than half of which is distributed in grain...