Today has been a lousy day. Talked to prof Wu in the morning and apparently, nothing fruitful turns out in the end. Doing conformational analysis on cyclic peptide is driving me crazy; there're simply so much possibilities and how are we going to analyze it? Worst still, he wanna see if these cyclic peptide can form nanotubes. Gosh, how long will the calculation take? He made it sound as if this is much easier than doing mechanistic studies. My foot lor. It's so meaningless sitting at the computer, looking at hundreds of conformations where everything seem the same to me.
My seniors were consouling me yesterday. They also dislike this project as they felt it's too much work and even if we have many results, there is no story line to link these result. In short, no conclusion can be drawn. One of my senior spent 1 year doing similar stuff and ended up with nothing. In the end, he decided to come out with his own project and move on. Apparently, people in my lab likes to suggest their own project. This is good for me as well as there are a lot of reactions that I will like to look into. When they realized what boss wants from my project, they laughed and said this has always been his dream. I paused for a while, memories of Dr. Yao's talk in the ISCOC last year flooded back and I thought, yah, dreams - a strong driving force indeed.
Since this project is more like mission impossible - searching in the dark for a one cent coin, I will do my best to get some results. I guess Chengdu side needs some of these results before they can get a good publication. Hope that this episode of my life will be done with quickly before I get to do things that I really like.
It all started with a "dream", indeed.
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