El Presidente

With the establishing of the MUSC postdoctoral association last May, i had volunteered my services as an executive officer (secretary officially) to try and help get the association on its feet and start things slowly moving. As you can imagine, this is often an uphill goal - a lot of postdocs want things to be done for them without putting in effort whereas others feel that it diverts time away from the lab which is where they should be (in some ways, a point of view i can agree with). With the first year all but over and done with, the time came for elections to be held and some shuffling in the 'cabinet' as it were. Some of us decided we were happy to stay on for the next year (as we'd actually be here) and the voting was done pretty quickly (a smaller group of people means that things do get done decisively for a change).

So imagine my surprise when i was nominated, seconded and voted in as president for the next year before i could even catch my breath. Looks like i've got a busy year ahead of me. Still, one has to have a positive outlook on things - if i can use this year to make a difference at MUSC, even if only a small one, then i guess it will be something. I've also lined up a meeting or two with my other executives in the next week or so to try and establish solid goals to work with for the next year. I guess we'll just have to watch this space. Now if only the 2008 Presidential election could be decided this quickly, then we'd have a lot to be thankful for!