my data runs wild and free as i have yet to gather it

Joined July 2021
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Cruelty Free Manuscript* *no researchers cried during the writing of this draft
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Cell, Nature, and Science: *rejects my paper* Me: years of dating has prepared me for this
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Keeping a spray bottle at my desk for when my PI asks for new side projects
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not a student or employee but a mysterious third thing
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Teachers hold too much power. They could make you do an icebreaker at literally any moment
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Him saying he doesn’t know how to fix our relationship and me shaking my head in disappointment because we haven’t even tried 4% formaldehyde yet
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Oh thank god, the experiment failed. For a second there I thought I might have to analyze data
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Omg they actually gave me a phd. The fools
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I'm doing a study to see if having more 1st author papers correlates with increased job opportunities. I am in the control group
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Imagine if papers were titled like movies Protein Chaperones Protein Chaperones 2: Aggregates Strike Back Protein Chaperones 3: The Refoldening Protein Chaperones 4: Return of ATP The Final Protein Chaperone The Final Protein Chaperone (Part 2) A New Protein Chaperone
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Knowledge is knowing that results are based on experimental conditions and variation. Wisdom is knowing the science gods control all
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You become a grad student twice. Once when you're admitted, and again when you forget to add an antibody and don't realize until the bus ride home
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The real lab notebook is the abandoned Google docs we made along the way
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Measuring my thesis each morning to see if it's grown overnight
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I refuse to defend my thesis. It's never going to make it in this world if it doesn't learn to fight for itself
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Profs out here like: yes you can have your phd, but only if you answer my questions three
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The sheer destructive power of a Sunday email from your PI
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*writes literally two sentences* Wow I've gotten a lot done, I should take a short break *watches a 2.5 hour movie*
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Crying before the experiment has even produced a result - me, an empath
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We meet again negative data, you raggedy ass bastard
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