So, I have a stack of lab reports sitting on my desk... I've been working on them for a ridiculously long time. Mostly, I have been finding ANYTHING to do which will keep me from grading. I washed all of the dishes in my house, I spent extra time in the lab, I read papers... anything but read through a bunch of lab reports.
Well, my PI threw another great procrastinating tool at me today: http://ori.hhs.gov/TheLab/
A training tool about research misconduct! Yay! Really, it could have been awfully boring, but I would have thought it was a blast compared to grading... What's neat about this website is that its like those "Create your own Adventure" books, only with a story about a lab with a post-doc who publishes altered data! Doesn't it sound exciting?
What I learned from this adventure in research misconduct is- my department is apparently not the only gossipy department out there! Also- graduate school and research can lead to an awful unbalanced life full of disappointments... boo. If you play as the post-doc, prepare to be depressed. Not only has this post doc been post doc-ing for 4 years, but he ends up doing an additional two. Six years as a post doc? Thats another PhD! Yikes! Another thing I noticed, things seemed ridiculously competitive! My group is not so cutthroat, but goodness, I cannot imagine if it were...
Well, back to grading... maybe...
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