You are a science grad student if

1.  you read singlesnet. as sHinglesnet.
2. detergent makes you think of triton-X 100.
3. you start to criticize humans for being humans and ask reasons for why are they pissed off?
4. you make your food with timer stolen from lab.
5. you start to eat in micro and milli quantities but drink in liters.
6. you check your account after every happy hour.
7. the development disbelief in yourself is directly proportional to the amount of years you spend in grad school.
8. you feel cocky when your experiments work and depressed when don't: in sum, you have so much depression that if you want you can open a retail shop to sell depression candies or cookies.
9. things in your life moves in a circle: viscous or wishful.
10. you think only apocalypse can save you from grad school.

Grad School Chronicles- Research is 'pretty much' life and vice-versa- IV

15. There is big difference between Wisdom and Knowledge. It is like saying don't do it because you know you messed it up rather than don't do it because you read it somewhere else.

16. The world would have been a better place if we have gotten 50% results after working with 50% commitment.

17. Nobody is perfect, even the DNA polymerase makes mistake.

18. Nothing is free, even the Oxygen generate oxygen free radicals to kill or mutate the cells.

Grad School Chronicles- Research is 'pretty much' life and vice-versa- III

10. Always remember what things you are good at (even pouring wine or water counts), especially during bad days.

11. Tortoise (slow and steady wins the race) principle applies: Research and life, both, are marathons.

12. Control the bidirectional(lab life to life)seepage of stress which is another way of saying keep both life separate. Nothing seeps better than the stress.

13. Pain is the tuition fee you pay to life teacher in order to learn. More you will avoid it,more it will come to haunt you. Do you still want to learn?

14. Never lose trust in your samples. They are as great as you are.

15. Take credit for your messed up experiments because then only you will be better messed up.

Grad School Chronicles- Research is 'pretty much' life and vice-versa- II

5. Be happy with whatever results you got. You deserve it just like the sadness which eats up your happy mood. That's why they say- take nothing granted.

6. Don't ask to a grad student: When are you completing your degree? Please come up with better questions.

7. Make sure you know the difference between herd vaccination (which is meant to protect one from infectious disease) and herd stupidity (...fill in the blank...).

8. Next day will be a better day. This advice might not be true all the time but it teaches you to look forward.

9. Look at the colors of other people's clothes, find hair style you like, relish those unknown smiles, smell the air even when it is really cold outside, laugh out loud when you slip on sleets despite the pain - such is the power of the present. Soon you start to lose focus from the haunting past.

Grad School Chronicles- Research is 'pretty much' life and vice-versa

1. More you think you can do, without thinking, more you will mess things up. So take time before messing things up because before you know you would find that you have messed up things significantly well and sometimes beyond reforms.

2. Nothing is easier. One moment you think something is easier, next moment it will come to haunt you. Keep you lips stitched and your brain, if you can.

3. One can get over a single worry but a worry compounded by miscellaneous worries is enough to make one sick at the end of day, many times from oneself.

4. Solutions and problems are inside you. Don't go any far before doing this exercise.

5. Try not to project mainly blame others for what could be your fault. It is not easy because it is a defense mechanism (Freud).

6. Everyone is a superhero, otherwise, how could one explain thights, leggings and innerwears.