aberrant
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0 to 100, jobless, real quick. <-- TFW your PI makes you get your PhD but offers no support for postdoc search.
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Truly feels the pain when it is necessary to change a manuscript format for submitting to a different journal. It feels like light-years to go through the guideline, revise the format, double check everything, triple check the cover letter before sending it out.
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Submitting a manuscript to the journal (for the first time) is a "one-pretty-stressful" hour (or days, if you keep catching things needed to be fix / submit).
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@Quantum Buckyball Molecular Cell for now. Haven't heard anything back, so I guess we passed the preliminary screen. haha
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That time of year when your boss made you to give up your life for his/her grant proposal due date... AND meeting with prospectus students during interview weekend... *sigh*
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Got a fellowship! Mo' money, no problem!
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2015 so far has been a year that it would be acceptable for me to tell my PI "I told you so" in multiple occasions.
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I confirmed that this post-doc has the least scientific sense among all the post-docs that I have met. I swear.
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The longer you are in grad school to do research, the more you shouldn't trust an undergrad to do your work. *sigh*
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I guess the quality of undergrads are school and department related. Seniority, too. Freshman / sophomore seem to be more willingly to learn than, say, seniors.
Haha in my field, each individual typically has one or two projects that are independent, so you don't really work directly with/for a postdoc. Professor, on the other hand, were just looking for cheap labors to prove their hypothesis right/wrong, in my cynical opinion
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Paper due at the end of the month, rough draft due at the end of the week (T-24). Vomiting a vomit draft.
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I send mass-yet-personalized e-mails to keep my LORs updated. I always feel guilty not to keep them updated after all their hard work.
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Most definitely ready for this summer - research and workshop!
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Looking at how a couple soon-to-be graduate students giving poor, far from facts advice on career/grad school decisions as if general consensus officially made me believe that TGC has officially changed.
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there are always a few of those every cycle. I try and make sure to counter this "sage" advice whenever I find it. These people usually give up and leave just as fast as they appeared. It's important to point out that people should consider the source of the information that they are receiving. But I have to admit, these people who haven't even started grad school giving advice as if they are experts drives me nuts too, sometimes.
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