In which I bitch and moan
admin October 4th, 2007
In the interest of providing a more accurate portrayal of my day to day life in PhD gradschoolland I have decided to try and update more regularly. I feel that I should portray both the positive and negatives of the experience, so I apologize ahead of time for the complain fest about to occur. But not too much.
So I need some data. Really really badly. The thing is, I need to get the equipment to work properly and/or some tricky thing to work correctly to get it. Not so easy. The adviser is breathing down my back and I’m losing sleep over it. Anyone have any data that they aren’t really needing? Anyone? Didn’t think so.
I find it interesting that a good quarter of my group is also here tonight, right around 10:30. This didn’t use to be so. In the not too distant past when I was here past dinner time I was usually one of the only people. Perhaps this has to do with the emails my adviser has been sending out, hinting that people need to put in a minimum of 60 hours a week in the lab. Perhaps they need data too. Or maybe they are having a good time hanging out. Certainly does sound like it sometimes. I can’t understand what they say since 90% of the group is non-English speaking but I can’t believe it is all work going on around me. It’s a foreign boys club around here. Sigh…