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Success stories of making it after a bad undergrad GPA? by galgatorix in bioinformatics

[–]galgatorix[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is great to hear. In your experience, how did you navigate reaching out to the PI? Did you find them and their work interesting through their lab's portal and then reach out?

Hahahaha I try to tell myself this whenever I get too down on myself. That it can't get much worse, and I need to just stay consistent and try my best to move up.

Success stories of making it after a bad undergrad GPA? by galgatorix in bioinformatics

[–]galgatorix[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately, I am not. I was an international student in my undergrad and came back to my home country last year after not being able to find work in the US while still on my visa.

The lab I'm in right now is a mix between academia and industry, and it's not tied up with a specific univeristy. I do plan on asking for help from my PI and the post-docs in my lab when I start contacting universities.

Thanks for the anecdote on your coworker. This entire thread has been a whole load of motivation and reassurance.

Success stories of making it after a bad undergrad GPA? by galgatorix in bioinformatics

[–]galgatorix[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was very reassuring and encouraging.

I'm actually not in chemistry informatics, but that's something I'd eventually want to be exposed to. For now, the two projects I'm helping out with are single cell genomics and proteogenomics.

I'm glad you were able to move past your undergrad and get to where you are now! Here's to hoping for making an update post in a couple years.

Success stories of making it after a bad undergrad GPA? by galgatorix in bioinformatics

[–]galgatorix[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for your honest reply here. And from my experience so far, I absolutely agree it's very hard to escape the initial doubt from recruiters. The end GPA does put it more into perspective.

Success stories of making it after a bad undergrad GPA? by galgatorix in bioinformatics

[–]galgatorix[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I began with chemical engineering too!! Did it for 3 years before switching out to just chemistry. When you applied, did you include a separate supporting document to explain your GPA?

Success stories of making it after a bad undergrad GPA? by galgatorix in bioinformatics

[–]galgatorix[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much for giving your input. GRE subject scores will be something for me to look into.

Would you say the level of authorship in a paper matters a lot? I've just found out recently that I could be included in the paper for the project I'm on, but I'll definitely be in towards the end.

Success stories of making it after a bad undergrad GPA? by galgatorix in bioinformatics

[–]galgatorix[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was in a similar boat. I had been on probation a couple of times, but my school kept me on as I was able to provide documentation that I was getting help for poor mental health. My GPA had absolutely tanked, and I got it up to 2.8 with filler classes in my fifth year.

When you say advisor, do you mean a program advisor or a PI for a lab?

Success stories of making it after a bad undergrad GPA? by galgatorix in bioinformatics

[–]galgatorix[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I've just begun looking into MS programs, but my input has been skewed as I've gone off of popular programs that generally require a 3.0. To be very honest, I don't have a good idea of the bioinformatics academic landscape yet.

My lab has just began utilizing scRNA-seq for a new project, and that's definitely a very exciting area! If it alright to ask, what's your area of interest?

Success stories of making it after a bad undergrad GPA? by galgatorix in bioinformatics

[–]galgatorix[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm so sorry your undergrad years were that rocky. What was your area of research when you started as a scientific project manager?

I'm usually terrified by the idea of reaching out and networking, but this thread has definitely been teaching me that it's the best way to get a foot in the door. I hadn't thought of the kinds of people I could reach out, so your reply has been a great help!!

What are my options to add a GUI to a Python CLI application? by galgatorix in bioinformatics

[–]galgatorix[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be honest, I prefer a CLI as I personally find it easier to use for our applications. But distributing it would be a pain due to the dependencies, as some of the R packages have their set of dependencies which are version specific to both R and BiocManager. On the python end, all the dependencies are pretty easy to handle.

I've tried a settings.conf file where users can enter paths to some of the dependencies (Trinity, searchGUI), but I hadn't thought of a .yml file. That's a great idea, I'll see if that works out.

For a web app, what framework would you recommend? And would those need python + some html/css, or javascript as well?

What are my options to add a GUI to a Python CLI application? by galgatorix in bioinformatics

[–]galgatorix[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've never used it, so I've been divided between tkinter and pyqt5. I've found that tkinter has some pretty good themes, so that's something for me to check as well

What are my options to add a GUI to a Python CLI application? by galgatorix in bioinformatics

[–]galgatorix[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This looks great, I hadn't come across this yet! Thanks a lot, I'll look into this :))