I’m so lazy, dammit. Less than 2 weeks until my talk and I still have yet to start analyzing my piles of data. I never used to be so lazy or unmotivated. Being stuck in my bastard major professor’s lab has done this to me. It’s turned me into an unmotivated blob who just sits around surfing the internet all day. I know I should get to work on my analysis, but I just can’t get myself to. I keep finding other things to do instead. And it’s all his damn fault. So my song for this week is Plain White T’s - Hey There Delilah. Let’s just ignore the whole long distance love song part of it and focus on the “Oh it’s what you do to me” part because my major professor did this to me…he turned me into a super slacker.
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It gets pretty hot around here during the summer. So hot that I’m almost glad that I’m stuck in my nice air-conditioned lab all day long. Yet without fail, I always see some med student and/or doctor walking to their car from the hospital (which is a pretty damn long walk in hot weather) with their shirt and tie and white coat on. And I always wonder how they manage to not suffer heat stroke dressed that way. And why they don’t take their white coats off before walking to their cars. It really doesn’t take that long and besides, it’s probably covered in germs and such. I could even maybe chalk it up to laziness and a I’m-not-spending-another-second-in-this-hospital-even-if-it-means-I’m-hot-as-hell mentality, but then they take off their white coats before they get into their cars. So either way, they still spend precious seconds of their time removing their white coats. So why not take them off before leaving the hospital? There’s only one explanation: they want to tell the world that they’re hot-doctor (or soon-to-be doctor)-studs. Which I think is dumb considering that the only people who see them are…I don’t know…the people who work at the hospital? It is a hospital after all, not a bar. So they can parade around the parking lots all they want in their doctorly attire and no one will be impressed because giggly college sorority girls don’t really hang out at hospitals or hospital parking lots. Really worth risking heat stroke for, don’t you think? This little quirk is almost as silly as med students wearing their stethoscopes around their necks while driving to the hospital early in the morning.
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…is that it’s so hard to get out of it when the time comes. The motivation just isn’t there, even if you’re faced with the prospect of not finishing up your thesis despite taking an extra year or the more urgent matter of giving another talk in three weeks when you have no data to show for the three years you’ve already spent supposedly working hard. Nope, that pile of data that needs to be analyzed just keeps sitting there unanalyzed. And to make matters worse, you’ll be doing two experiments a mere three days before your talk, hoping that the data will be perfect and magically analyze and interpret itself and insert itself into your talk. Seriously, I curse you, Major Professor, for turning me into this unmotivated blob.
…give a presentation on your non-existent data (yet again). I hardly call that a prize, but that’s what the email made it sound like. Fun.
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