_I hope this experiment works, she thought to herself as the director looked on.  Grants and future promotions depended on this experiment alone.  The object was noble -- a medicine to hopefully reverse symptoms of Alzheimers -- but her object was quite selfish.  All that she really wanted out of this experiment was the fellowship, she admitted to herself.  That, and the attention of the handsome Ph.D student who worked above her...he would certainly be impressed if her idea turned out to be fruitful.  But sometimes, she thought, daydreaming a bit, there's no way to cotnrol what happens and what doesn't.  Getting into school was that way, she had applied with almost no real belief that she would get in.  But sometimes you just need to let life happen without worrying.  This wasn't her speciality, of course, but she tried.  
