Thoughts from de lab (home edition)

Personal Blog. Sometimes i study, and sometimes i sit and think |PhD student from Chile | Biotechnology, yeast genetics & 🍺🍷science | 28

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Collaborating on a project with several colleagues, the grad student is unable to identify exactly what he is contributing.

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Scrolling through colleagues' social media posts regarding their new working papers and publications, the grad student wants to unfollow himself.

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by the time this pandemic ends I’ll have to be slowly rehabilitated back into society like a raccoon or I’ll get scared and start biting 

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Kicking off spring break, the grad student watches videos of places he wishes he could visit.

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Exercising for the first time in months, the grad student crumples into a mushy pile of agony.

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Experiencing a moment of happiness, the grad student is immediately consumed with guilt.

[tomaasp]

04/08/2020 17:00 pm

Been distracted a lot, but still trying to be productive as the day goes by jajaja almost 500 words today 😅

[tomaasp]

Doing some research tonight. 1 lt of limon&honey tea and post rock in the radio to help the process jajaja

The topic is: how novel yeast Could be used in fermentation products like wine, beer, bread, kombucha, cider, etc 😅.

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[fairiegardens]

Me shortly,

[tomaasp]

17.07.2020

you have been in your desk reading some papers with your headphones on, and then, suddenly it's 3am and you are starving

📖: genes for sexual body size dimorphism in hybrid tilapia...

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09.07.2020

Taking care of compost and sourdough 😅

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The rest of the day? Well...

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09.07.2020

Taking care of compost and sourdough 😅

[tomaasp]

Always struggling with immunology papers 😅

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Things You’ve Heard About Grad School (Esp. A PhD) But Need Repeating

It is, by nature, lonely. Most of your cohort are usually married or have pets or some sort of life outside school, which means that, unlike your undergrad, you might find it difficult to find people to hang out with after school hours. If you’re in a PhD program, this is even worse because everyone does their own thing, most of the time, and apparently year 3 and on is a little more lonely than before (because a lot of us don’t do classes after year 2). Summers, if you choose to stay on campus or your advisor asks you to, are a little lonelier than the academic school cycle as well.

Everyone has their own flow of creative academia, and you cannot be expected to reproduce what worked for other people. As my wonderful coordinator told me, looking me straight in the eyes, as he ignored the other students- Don’t try to reverse engineer the process, that’s not how it works

Time Management, What’s that? The first thing you will notice once you get into classes and research papers is that you no longer know how to manage your time. Years of conditioning has made you work extra hard for your classes and now all your professors are telling you that your classes don’t matter and that you should focus all you time on your research. BUT HOW. Well, that’s a question apparently no one quite knows how to handle. The apps help you keep track of things, but prioritization is an art that can apparently only be learnt through anxiety inducing breakdowns.

If you already knew everything, you wouldn’t be here- This is really easy to forget and I have to constantly catch myself and remind myself that it is expected that I find things hard in my first year. You will find things hard regardless of which year you are in AND THAT IS OKAY.