Category Archives: lab/graduate school

It’s quite simple really. All you have to do is inject 3 cc of air directly into the right atrium of your unsuspecting experimental animal. Yep. It’s as simple as that. And how to do that short of wielding an … Continue reading →

So I’m back from my retreat relatively unscathed. Here’s what I learned. 10. It’s not really a retreat when you have to listen to talks for 8 hours a day. I think they call that prison. 9. People are just … Continue reading →

So I’m leaving today for our research retreat far, far away where I will have no internet connection (I don’t call having no internet connection a retreat—I call that torture). I’ve set up a few filler posts to automatically post, … Continue reading →

So after a previous particularly humiliating performance, I spent over a month preparing for (more like obsessing about) the last talk I gave this past fall. I simply love it when I’m up there about to die from completely illogical … Continue reading →

oh, lab how i detest thee i come to you at 8 and don’t get to leave till 5 if i’m lucky it’s nothing personal, really it’s just that my major professor thinks he owns me and that i’m merely … Continue reading →

Ah. Graduate school. Quite a different experience compared to medical school. Completely different. So much more laid-back. So much more relaxed. So much more boring. It’s not that it’s not challenging. It’s just so not stressful or demanding when compared … Continue reading →

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