I’ll start with the ending: three Mondays ago, after 2 years of work in a lab and several recent months of panic and suffering quiet perseverance, I turned in my thesis. It arrived at the biochem office 51 minutes after the deadline. This was after I wrote an abstract in 10 minutes (4:30pm), an entire (More…)
Three years ago, after going on a run with a friend, I said to him, “we are going to run the Boston marathon.” It was a moment of triumphant and wildly inaccurate self-appraisal. What I should have said, of course, was “we are going to squander many months of our youth playing video games and (More…)
There are two computers in the microscope room at my lab. One is for operating the microscope; the other is for chatting with friends. Which makes me wonder why it is such a fancy, obviously expensive piece of equipment. Maybe it’s so I can open more gchat windows and tabs on Firefox. Cutting edge delinquency (More…)
Yup, I’m the phone to China again, and nope, I still haven’t talked to either Mom or Dad. Grandma: Alright kid, listen up. Three things: Stop traveling. I heard you went to Hong Kong a couple weeks back? Bad idea. It’s a proven fact that young people are constantly being killed all around the world, (More…)
After moving in yesterday, I decided today to take a walk with my roommate around the campus. After trying to haggle over the price of 4 trash cans at a Habitat for Humanity charity sale (before realizing that it was a Habitat for Humanity charity sale), we spent the next hour and a half trying (More…)