Team work

One of the million things they do before an effective drug is made and released.....working on this project 2 years ago was so much fun and stressful...............but the lesson I learnt and shall remeber all my life is 'Team Work'.

This project of developing an RXR antagonist in sybyl was something I had to do because I had to, to get the diploma in Bioinformatics. It was interesting and very excitinbg to use Sybyl a software not many get an access to. The minute details and the advancement of technology just leaves you baffled. But the downside of all this was...I was not motivated enough to learn what I needed( which I had no clue of) and the faculty did not help much either. Or may be we just were on different platforms and things never worked out, but nonethless there was one good thing that happened through  this project........


My best friend who survived me through each and every day of 3 years of undergrad, chose to push herself and pursue 1 year in bioinformatics too, together with me. No second guessing needed, she was with me in this project. The only thing we both had in common was, ' the desire to learn'. The positive or may be the negative side about me was, I am damn too dominating by nature. I need to do things my way because I do not trust others. I have to do it all by myself and wouldn't care who got the credit but the final result was to be immaculate and Perfect. And my friend, she was the kind, who would   obidently follow the tasks entrusted in her. Who would support me morally and who would also give the much needed criticism. She always let me be the one to decide who get's to do what......and then she made sure each one of us was doing it right and on time. This was like a silent deal we both made that always worked wonders, when it came to finishing projects on time and obviously the best of the kind in the class. (:~D Really! :~P)

2 years later, thinking all about it, I think.....this is what a team work basically is. A leader who breaks the project into different tasks and entrusts in his/her team mates. A team mate who trusts his/her leader loyally and fulfills the task and also the one who keeps a check on his/her leader, incase something is amiss/not right.

I have played my part of being a leader and also a team mate in various and different situations of life and all the credit shall go to Paddu!! She is the best friend, anyone could ever ask for.

P.S. : A leader is not superior to a team mate or vice versa...they are just different roles with different responsibilities with the same goalss and sometimes diffrent pay rates. - Archana (lol)