True Life - Blog Posts
me.
people can hate doom scrolling and yes yes sense. go wiggle your toes. clouds and sunshine are nice. rolling in grass and hoarding pebbles seems is joyful and these papers need to be folded or scribbled over. numbers and words are very productive i see.
but ,honestly the internet is so beautiful. its good to delve deep. find those oyesters.
goto go make origami for my rocks to look at.
True meaning of LIFE-
Have you ever thought that whether are we really living a LIFE, like we should?
For me the answer is “NO”. Our daily lives today are bound to offices, schools, studies, jobs, computers, mobiles and so on, but it is not what it should be. We humans are able to express our feelings like we want to, but, we are not using that power are we?
In our daily rush we forget to take care of things that are far very important than things like mobiles, computers, X-Boxes and televisions.
There are things more worthy of our valuable attention like, nature, animals, birds, etc. but do you think that are we doing our part? Our life has become a play, where we HUMANS act like dummies who have forgot about feelings and relationships completely. I believe animals would surely say, “Humans please behave like you should, because we also don’t act like sometimes you do!” Faking emotions isn’t right, is it? Of course it is not, it is just like fooling yourself,wearing a mask on your face. I think we have done enough for technology an now it’s time for ourselves, family, friends and all others. Enough of playing MINECRAFT and ROBOLOX and all the other games, let’s play what we used to in an open airy ground. I think it’s time to cuddle a living being, whether it is a pet, an animal or a human. Because of technology people became close but their hearts went very far away from each other, let’s bring them back. We are just becoming enemies of our own eyes exposing them to such radiation and bright lights, let’s give them a break, a treat with a beautiful view of nature, that comes free. Why are we being so greedy!? Even a lion never attacks when it’s not hungry, then why are we so greedy for everything? I suppose our lives are going on pretty well even without a PALACE or a BMW. Humans are social animals, let’s not get caged with things that worth nothing. Let’s socialize again, not on social media but a in a real society.
The problem is that we try to seek happiness in money and promotions and we completely neglect that the best things we can get out of life, are all free. They are provided to each and everyone of us. We just too busy to notice them maybe. Remember when you last admired the starry night outside? No?
Let’s pause, just for a second, think that are we really living a LIFE? Take a deep breath look around and you’ll soon get to know that the best things never left you, they were there, all this time and you just never noticed. Neglect the things that deserve to be , not your life.
LIFE IS MEANT TO LIVED AND NOT NEGLECTED.
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If there was a sitcom based on my lab it would be a comedy of errors and near catastrophe featuring the Lab Weirdo™, the Confused Undergrad™, the Done With This Shit Fifth Year™, the Fourth Year Who Is The Only Person Who Knows How The Instruments Work But Is Impossible To Find™, the Ever Present Third Year™, and the Exhausted Second Year™
It would be called “Don’t Quench the Magnet”
fun things to do in lab
accidentally crushing a pcr tube when opening it with one hand
dropping… anything. especially an entire box of frozen samples.
slightly too large gloves and getting them caught as you close tubes
when the magnetic spin bar spins too fast and does the thing
listening to someone else’s forgotten timer go off
“uh… what’s that smell..”
going in for a pipette tip and then overturning the entire box
16 hour time-points
srsly who invented 16 hr time-points
they’re inhumane
labelling rows and rows of 600 ul microcentrifuge tubes by hand
“we’re sorry but this reagent has been back-ordered for 3 months”
listening to the scraping noise of plastic culture flasks on metal shelves
getting your samples stuck in any sort of machine
“i need you to go and catalog every chemical we have”
cleaning cell culture incubators with aerosolized 70% ethanol
having the fire alarms go off when you’re literally in the middle of something that can not be put down no i will perish in this fire before i forgo this damn experiment!
that sense of pure panic when you realize you miscalculated how much reagent you need
“one of your mice died and its cage mates ate half the body”
There was a brief period of time my junior year of undergrad when I wanted to be an organic chemist, so I took the graduate level organic synthesis class.
This wasn’t even the advanced ochem class, it was specifically synthesis for actual organic chemists, and it was just me and two other undergrads surrounded by first year grad students.
Anyways, the exams were these hellish two hour affairs which probably stand as the most difficult exams I’ve ever taken, and we all knew they were going to be bad going into the first midterm but not how bad.
So about forty minutes into the first two hour midterm one of the grad students gets up and turns in his test. The rest of us were like still on the first page so we were all kind of impressed that he was done already.
He leaves the room, and then from the hallway we hear him yell “fucking fuck,” and I think that was the purest expression of how midterms and finals feel that I have ever encountered.
you know when you’re motivated but like, in the wrong way?? like “i’m ready to do all my laundry and clean the whole apartment and do dishes and vacuum and -” like ok champ that’s great but why don’t we focus on those two projects due monday first
Day in the life of a scientist
Me, at an art store: I need a paint marker with low toxicity and a delicate tip.
Employee: What kind of project are you working on?
Me: It's for a research project. I just need bright colors.
Employee: What medium are you using? Canvas or paper?
Me: uh....spiders.
Employee: Plastic or felt?
Me: ....live spiders. Like, from the forest.
Employee: ....
Employee: I have to get back to the counter.
