m a r i e l ♥

Sun, 30 Jun 2019 14:24:52 -0700

Sun, 30 Jun 2019 14:24:10 -0700

30 June 2019

Guess who’s finishing up her third year of grad school 🙄 Went to a conference in Atlanta early this month and presented my poster. I need to remember to always wear shoes that I know are comfy and not shoes that I think will be comfy. I bought these cute flats in April and I assumed they’d be fine, but of course they won’t be. Aside from that, the trip was okay. Anyway I keep telling myself (and you guys) that I’ll post more but I never do. No excuses here but I just keep forgetting 🤷‍♀️ lol.

Thu, 25 Oct 2018 20:48:51 -0700

gradschoolstyle:

Passive aggressive thank yous
Inside joke acknowledgements
Jokes in footnotes
Unacknowledged puns
Saucy comments like “as much as researchers would like this to be the case..”
Random trivia in footnotes
Unnecessary appendices (songs listened to while writing, lists of weird historical events, etc)
Citations of yourself, because goals
Unnecessary citations of your academic friends
Song lyric quotes in italics as chapter openings
What else you got? Looking to spice this document up.

Thu, 25 Oct 2018 20:47:22 -0700

docresa:

The award for cutest protein goes to:
Kinesine. (anterograde microtubuli-associated transport protein)

Tue, 16 Oct 2018 19:20:35 -0700

thepowerwithin:

When your head hits the pillow tonight, remind yourself that you’ve done a good job. You are headed down your path at your own pace, and with every obstacle you are trying your utmost best. Be patient with yourself, and remember that big things are achieved not all at once, but one day at a time.

Fri, 12 Oct 2018 22:55:22 -0700

dukeofbookingham:

The essence of grad school is crossing one item off your to-do list, then adding five more

Fri, 12 Oct 2018 22:43:02 -0700

caffeinatedcraziness:

80% of science is just waiting for things to happen…

Tue, 09 Oct 2018 22:00:45 -0700

caffeinatedcraziness:

On a scale from mild inconvenience to destroy a mass spectrometer, what’s the worst that can happen?

Tue, 09 Oct 2018 21:59:10 -0700

10 October 2018

This was during one of my last lab meeting presentations. the sword made me feel like my research is cool 🤔

So btw, guess who’s a third year now! I mean I feel like my research isn’t going anywhere but we’re going strong guys! 🙇‍♀️

Tue, 09 Oct 2018 20:30:00 -0700

mindblowingscience:

Breaking News:

The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2018 has been awarded to Arthur Ashkin, Gerard Mourou and Donna Strickland “for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics”.

Donna Strickland is the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics in 55 years.

Nobel Laureate Arthur Ashkin has been awarded the #NobelPrize in Physics “for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems.”

Nobel Laureates Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland have been awarded the #NobelPrize in Physics “for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses.”

Article here with more information about their work:

Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland win Nobel physics prize

This girl right here is officially a Ph.D. candidate!!!

Sun, 22 Apr 2018 10:13:17 -0700

It’s been a stressful few weeks but I’m so relieved it’s over <3

2 April 2018 So my prelim exam is in 18 days so I spent the...

Mon, 02 Apr 2018 23:20:07 -0700

2 April 2018
So my prelim exam is in 18 days so I spent the whole day today finishing my written proposal. I finished it, but it’s needs some work 😓 but now time to send it around!

ps. i have 3 screens in front of me and i am using them ALL. super helpful lol.

smilesandvials: me: earned literally two degrees in chemistry me, typing up a proposal:

Wed, 21 Mar 2018 14:36:54 -0700

smilesandvials:

me: earned literally two degrees in chemistry

me, typing up a proposal:

phdstudyblr:Current writing strategy is “keep writing garbage sentences until the good ones come...

Tue, 20 Mar 2018 18:49:47 -0700

phdstudyblr:

Current writing strategy is “keep writing garbage sentences until the good ones come out”

me pretty much for my prelim proposal

Mon, 19 Mar 2018 20:15:42 -0700

adventuresinchemistry:

Nature: 90% whatever’s hot in bio right now, 10% other
Science: 2 pages of a really cool story, 50 pages of supplement
Cell: your entire dissertation edited down to 20 unreadable pages
PNAS: papers Academy members couldn’t get into better journals
PLOS one: papers non Academy members couldn’t get into better journals, but open source
eLife: papers people couldn’t get into PLOS one
Nature [insert field]: research that isn’t hot enough for Nature
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics: we couldn’t decide if we were one field or two
JACS: chemistry you’re pretty sure is cool but honestly you’re not sure you understand
Angewante Chemie: JACS but German
Advances in Physics: scientific journals: a statistical approach
Astrophysical Journal: not nearly enough pictures of space
Actual Journal of Your Field: solid science, interesting, low impact

currently obsessed with my wallpaper 🙃 today was spent reading...

Sat, 17 Mar 2018 20:15:49 -0700

currently obsessed with my wallpaper 🙃
today was spent reading more papers for prelim! woo!

constant background thoughts of a grad student

Mon, 12 Mar 2018 14:24:18 -0700

cancerbiophd:

there aren’t enough hours in a day!!!

…did i… forget to do something…

i don’t get paid enough for this

i’m so tired i’m so tired i’m so

coffee! coffee…

what i wouldn’t give for a nap right now

shit i totally forgot to do that!

i have no idea what i’m doing

i have no idea what’s going on in this seminar either

do i even belong here. what if this was all a MISTAKE

you know what sounds good right now. booze.

and caffeine

caffeinated booze??

this is fine.

~~no it’s not~~

i reallllly don’t get paid enough for this

just read the syllabus just READ THE SYLLABUS

….shit! i forgot to do the thing. again.

fuuuuuuuuu

uuugghhhhhhhhhhh

bblllleleeegghghghghgg

ok.. sometimes what i do is pretty neat.

/internal screaming noises/

when my advisor asks why i didn’t discuss something she told me was irrelevant 6 months ago

Mon, 12 Mar 2018 09:36:17 -0700

phdstudents:

you know you’re a grad student when

Mon, 12 Mar 2018 04:48:41 -0700

cancerbiophd:

me: /tucks in shirt for once

lab mate: so do you have to give a presentation today?

it’s been almost a year since my last tumblr post but i’m back!...

Sun, 11 Mar 2018 22:17:29 -0700

it’s been almost a year since my last tumblr post but i’m back! (:

my prelim exam is a month from now so i’m low key freakin out. which is also one of the reasons why i came back to tumblr lol

i’m polishing my specific aims page while watching friends. it’s pretty much done, which means it’s time for me to write the full proposal. wish me luck!