It is fucken awesome when you get to the end-stage of collaboratively editing a manuscript with your trainee, and you are arguing strenuously about some wording, and your hearts are pounding and your voices are rising! That’s when you know the paper is *really* close to ready to submit!
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Dr. O
June 7, 2011 at 4:32 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
And that’s when you know you’re grad student is about ready to graaadeeeate.
Experienced PI
June 7, 2011 at 7:48 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
And then you woke up covered in sweat….
missouri
June 7, 2011 at 8:08 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
And then, what?. you go back to bed? Will you be able to sleep a little more?
recent Ph.D.
June 8, 2011 at 7:40 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
So you go back to sleep and get back into the dream….only, crap!…this time your roles are reversed, and you’re now the trainee arguing with your adviser…
Katharine
June 8, 2011 at 10:02 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
And then you splooge all over the journal.
anonymous
June 8, 2011 at 10:06 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
sounds like being your trainee is super stressful.
missouri
June 8, 2011 at 11:34 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Particularly if the trainee dances while discussing figure’s position and numbering. I wouldn’t want to be in your shoes, CPP. As young as you might be, you will soon be a fucken deade mane!
Nat
June 8, 2011 at 1:21 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Why do you say that anonymous? Sounds fantastic to me. As long as people are clear as to why they feel a certain way, then I want it to be all passionate.
I fondly remember a long, drawn out argument with my advisor over whether we should abbreviate external solution as “ES”. It was fantastic.
By the way, the answer of course is “no”.
missouri
June 8, 2011 at 3:43 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Yes. Being passionate is key. You want also to be considerate with your neighbor labs as to not disrupt their lives with all the excitement and loud interactions over a nice, well-handed manuscript. How many times do you meet with the trainee ?, Once, twice, seven times a week ?. It depends. At any rate, a couple of museruole for the occasion(s) would do the trick and keep your neighbors productively happy.
Namnezia
June 8, 2011 at 4:11 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Nat – External solution? WTF? Nobody calls it that!
Nat
June 8, 2011 at 4:18 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
We’re not in that group of people deluding ourselves that it’s really aCSF. Besides, we weren’t using cells that normally reside in non-a CSF. Were we, then CSF might be relevant, and then I’d be happy to use that as an abbreviation.
Here’s a thought question: If you were asking someone what ions were in the aqueous media bathing the outside of their cells, would you say:
“What’s in your ES?”
Or
“What’s in your external?”
Comrade PhysioProf
June 8, 2011 at 4:19 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
It’s the motherfucken bath, dumshittes.
missouri
June 8, 2011 at 4:26 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
haHahahahahaha, Bravo !
Nat
June 8, 2011 at 4:45 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
No, it’s not the bath. Bath exchange is for losers.
missouri
June 8, 2011 at 6:30 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Bath ?… That was a typing mistake. Comrade Physioprof might have meant waterbed…
http://www.my-waterbed-shop.com/
El Picador
June 9, 2011 at 2:28 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
You fukken rigjoxkeys are unbelievable….
El Picador
June 9, 2011 at 2:30 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Oh, and I’m sure Rep Wiener is similarly passionate about legislation….
Nat
June 9, 2011 at 2:36 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Really? I always thought Weiner was mostly interested in grandstanding to make a name for himself, and then running for NYC mayor.
Not that your analogy makes any sense though.
Anthea
June 10, 2011 at 11:32 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
YES!!!
Katharine
June 11, 2011 at 3:29 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
NEEDS SONG PARODY
JIZZ ON MY ‘SCRIPT
by The Lonely Rig-Jockey
WHOOOOOOA
Lock eyes from across the bench
Raise my voice and ignore the stench
Of the sweat I emanate
As we gripe and perseverate
I insist and my voice is loud
‘Bout the manuscript of which I’m proud
Edits grow as ideas fly
My stress is up and I’m going to cry
Can hear us talk on every floor
Next lab’s pounding on the door
Eventually, a look in both our eyes
Maybe we could get ourselves a Nobel Prize?
And I
Jizz on my ‘script
Just got the external hard drive late last week
It’s throwing sparks and I look like a freak
IT’S YOUR FUCKING FAULT MY BRAINGASM GOT TRIPPED
And now I
Jizz on my ‘script
Don’t tell the dean or I’ll get your ass canned
I swear this reaction was wholly unplanned
I’m quite excitable, some would say that’s a plus
Now I’ll go home and change
I need a few grants to make projects run
This proposal writing ain’t much fun
Left me unfunded, not looking for help
Surprise in my eyes when I got a yelp
In my e-mail from a prospective grad
It read like the perfect personal ad
Never felt that I could get grants again
But the skills? Oh shit, here’s my new best friend
On the last line, that’s where I read it
Said “This is what I can do, try one more edit”
And I
Jizzed on my ‘script
There goes my data, I’m going to scream
Oh no, now the desktop’s starting to steam
I came so hard my inseam ripped and I
Jizzed on my ‘script
To be fair you were bragging a lot
Plus the number of cites got me bothered and hot
Perhaps I should put something on my desk
Fuck yes, I’m gonna give you a paycheck
Last week, a specific article
It was a horrific article
Chucked it in the reject pile
Saw a great discovery up next and I
Jizzed on the ‘script
Up late in the lab when the red lights flash
Need some energy lest my blood sugar crash
Accidentally drink my buffer, oh no, oh fuck, and I
Jizz on a ‘script
Find some awesome bacteria and I
Jizz on the ‘script
Get to the lab and run a huge blot and I
Jizz on some ‘script
When my chair gave me a massive bonus I
Jizzed on my ‘scripts
I got tenure and I
Jizzed on my ‘scripts
I went to
(Jizzed on my ‘script)
(Right in front of the undergrads)
I jizz right on the ‘script every time it’s next to me
And when that switch is tripped it’s like having sex to me
You say I’m quite the creep, I just call it ecstasy
I wear protection at all times, it’s a necessity
‘Cause I jizzed on the ‘script
Yes, I jizzed on the ‘script