I DEMAND MY HOLIDAY!!!
Ok I'm quite annoyed that though exam is over, I still don't get a proper holiday. Not 'flying off to somewhere' kind of holiday, just the 'yay I'm free to do whatever I want for the next 2 weeks till semester 2 starts' kind.
Exam ends tomorrow for everyone. I miss that feeling- sending mass texts to everyone on my contact list announcing my freedom, or just going to random lunches/window shopping trips. This year, I can't even leave the lab without thinking that if I come back to the lab too late, I'd miss the timing entirely and screw up an experiment. I feel bad saying "I'll see how it goes" when people invite me for lunch. So I'd rather not have lunch than risk having to repeat an experiment just because the bugs decide to grow faster and though I did plan everything perfectly, sometimes it's just one of those days.
Sleeping in till 9am is a luxury for me. Got up at 9, went to the lab at 10, stayed there till almost 5pm. Ran experiments whole day (does 10 minute incubations count as resting?), skipped lunch, nonstop pippeting (probably over 500 times today?) until my fingers hurt, ran 2 separate 24-hour assays, and on top of that having a headache reading and researching so much for the writeup. Come back home at 5pm, cook dinner, rest a little, do more research.
However, the worst thing is having construction workers drilling just 2 metres away from you outside the window. The noise is HORRIBLE and irritating beyond description. It's worse than some noisy neighbours getting drunk and playing nonstop dance music, because well at least it's music. There's nothing anyone in the lab could do- the construction has to go on in order to get completed. Too bad my lab is on the 8th floor and scaffolding works are already almost finished on other floors. A PhD student in my lab got a set of heavy duty headphones from the store, another girl had earplugs on, the others (including me) just turned up our mp3 players REALLY loud. If they're still on it tomorrow, I'm so going to get the proper headphones, even if I do look silly. But priority is still to NOT get a constant migrane or suffer from long term brain damage due to constant, irritating noise pollution. Even my supervisor came out from his room yelling about wanting to throw something at the workers. I understand that they are doing their job, but HEY pleaaaaase find a way to do that without disrupting OUR work too!
So that explains why my head's still feeling like it's going to explode.
I'm going crazy. If I don't do some retail therapy tomorrow. Fingers crossed I'll be able to leave the bugs to grow happily for a few hours while I regain my sanity.
:( I'm tired of being a student already. So does it sound crazy to you that I'm actually going to apply for Masters/PhD scholarships?
Ok I'm quite annoyed that though exam is over, I still don't get a proper holiday. Not 'flying off to somewhere' kind of holiday, just the 'yay I'm free to do whatever I want for the next 2 weeks till semester 2 starts' kind.
Exam ends tomorrow for everyone. I miss that feeling- sending mass texts to everyone on my contact list announcing my freedom, or just going to random lunches/window shopping trips. This year, I can't even leave the lab without thinking that if I come back to the lab too late, I'd miss the timing entirely and screw up an experiment. I feel bad saying "I'll see how it goes" when people invite me for lunch. So I'd rather not have lunch than risk having to repeat an experiment just because the bugs decide to grow faster and though I did plan everything perfectly, sometimes it's just one of those days.
Sleeping in till 9am is a luxury for me. Got up at 9, went to the lab at 10, stayed there till almost 5pm. Ran experiments whole day (does 10 minute incubations count as resting?), skipped lunch, nonstop pippeting (probably over 500 times today?) until my fingers hurt, ran 2 separate 24-hour assays, and on top of that having a headache reading and researching so much for the writeup. Come back home at 5pm, cook dinner, rest a little, do more research.
However, the worst thing is having construction workers drilling just 2 metres away from you outside the window. The noise is HORRIBLE and irritating beyond description. It's worse than some noisy neighbours getting drunk and playing nonstop dance music, because well at least it's music. There's nothing anyone in the lab could do- the construction has to go on in order to get completed. Too bad my lab is on the 8th floor and scaffolding works are already almost finished on other floors. A PhD student in my lab got a set of heavy duty headphones from the store, another girl had earplugs on, the others (including me) just turned up our mp3 players REALLY loud. If they're still on it tomorrow, I'm so going to get the proper headphones, even if I do look silly. But priority is still to NOT get a constant migrane or suffer from long term brain damage due to constant, irritating noise pollution. Even my supervisor came out from his room yelling about wanting to throw something at the workers. I understand that they are doing their job, but HEY pleaaaaase find a way to do that without disrupting OUR work too!
So that explains why my head's still feeling like it's going to explode.
I'm going crazy. If I don't do some retail therapy tomorrow. Fingers crossed I'll be able to leave the bugs to grow happily for a few hours while I regain my sanity.
:( I'm tired of being a student already. So does it sound crazy to you that I'm actually going to apply for Masters/PhD scholarships?
