lost grad student, phd

Cruelty Free Manuscript* *no researchers cried during the writing of this draft

Cell, Nature, and Science: *rejects my paper* Me: years of dating has prepared me for this

Keeping a spray bottle at my desk for when my PI asks for new side projects

not a student or employee but a mysterious third thing

Teachers hold too much power. They could make you do an icebreaker at literally any moment

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

Oh thank god, the experiment failed. For a second there I thought I might have to analyze data

Omg they actually gave me a phd. The fools

I'm doing a study to see if having more 1st author papers correlates with increased job opportunities. I am in the control group

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

Knowledge is knowing that results are based on experimental conditions and variation. Wisdom is knowing the science gods control all

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

The real lab notebook is the abandoned Google docs we made along the way

Measuring my thesis each morning to see if it's grown overnight

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

Profs out here like: yes you can have your phd, but only if you answer my questions three

The sheer destructive power of a Sunday email from your PI

*writes literally two sentences* Wow I've gotten a lot done, I should take a short break *watches a 2.5 hour movie*

Crying before the experiment has even produced a result - me, an empath

We meet again negative data, you raggedy ass bastard