I’ve decided where I’m going to go to grad school! I’m very excited about the lab, the school, the new place.

But I’m not excited about moving. Partly because of the actual pain of moving and partly because moving is going to be really expensive.

Unfortunately, a lot of the work I need to do before I leave is paid out of an insufficient grant – that means I only get paid half or a third of the hours I actually work. Normally I wouldn’t be willing to do that, but, well, I’d really like to get a publication out of my undergrad research and that’s how it has to happen. So my paychecks are going to be very skimpy the next few months.

Plus, I probably won’t see any of my stipend until I’ve been in awesome new town a few months.

Looks like I’m going to have to get clever in the next few months.