I'm in!!

Had my interview yesterday. I wrote about how nervous I was because the lady who arranged the interview told me to bring in a resume- Gam made me up an academic resumé and omitted all my 'real jobs', which were irrelevant anyway... the professor barely looked at the resumé, just asked me about my project and why I wanted to do it, tested me a little on background knowledge on basic stuff like the NHMRC guidelines for feeding of infants (related to my project) and said he was keen to supervise! He already has an interest in the area of maternal and child health, which is fantastic, and he seemed genuinely interested in my project!

He did say it was hard work and that I needed to ensure I could be supported financially, as it is next to impossible to obtain first class honours if I have to hold down a job as well. I have my first meeting in mid January... exciting stuff! I expect it will be a really full-on year, but I get to do something that I'm genuinely interested in rather than having to plod through subjects that are irrelevant to me like I usually do. Plus what I'm doing will be useful to people working in public health, if I do a good job of it. I can't wait.

Thanks to Gam and Niall for all their advice :)

UPDATE: I just realised I should also be especially thankful to someone who doesn't read this blog- Victor's nutritionist friend Liz, who took the time to sit down with me and think of projects that will help fill a knowledge gap on target populations for public health nutrition and hopefully look good on my resumé someday. If I make it through the honours year I'll have a lot to thank her for, because my biggest worry was finding something I could stay interested in for a whole year- and thanks to one of her suggestions I think I've got it. We'll see.