during my first year in grad school I was thrown into the deep end of the lab. that's ok, I learned a lot. but my PI kept reiterating "this isn't our usual workload, I'm sorry you're training under such heavy demands but at least when we get back to normal pacing you'll sail through!"
a year later and I am now *qualified* to science on my own. but the pace never slowed down, and now I'm juggling even more things. I always compared med school to weight lifting, you cram more and more knowledge into your head. but grad school doesn't feel like I'm cramming my head full of random facts, it feels like I'm trying to keep 12 things balanced and someone's screaming at me and there's a random infant tugging on my coat and there's also a countdown but I don't know what it's counting down to?
