Dear Former Self,
Thank you for taking good notes sometimes. Occasionally, I think you are a genius for remembering to record what you did in the lab, like the time you saved my ass by noting how you did that one step in the convoluted protocol.
That said, I wish you would do the dishes more often.
Take care,
Current Self
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- I am a 6th year PhD student in the earth/life sciences. While I love science as a vocation and intellectual pursuit, I get frustrated with what it means to have a job as a scientist, especially as a woman. I am freaked out by my impending two-body problem and being a scientist with children someday. I am an advocate of lowering what we expect one person to do together with really working while at work so that 40-45 hours of it is sufficient. Enough is as good as a feast!
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12 comments:
I wish my former self would do dishes more often as well! Oh well, I guess I'll pawn them off on future self. :)
I leave a LOT for Future Self to do. She's a dependable work horse.
I wished my Former Self would sometimes be more detailed in her notes instead of forgetting that not only do they need to be understandable a week after, but also six months later.
But she's getting better at it.
I'm awful at remembering to note what I do. Perhaps Future Self should take note.
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too funny
Is it your Current, Former, or Future Self (all 3?) that's making such consistent progress on your side bar tasks? [Who to delegate that to?]
From, a Geo to an EcoGeo ;)
I do wish my Former Self would take better notes. It's no fun for my Current Self to try to reconstruct two weeks worth of work.
I totally agree. Mine takes awesome notes but never does the dishes. She's a horrible roommate, I have to say.
LOL!!! Thanks! I needed that...
Silver Fox: since I have been working on that project since 2005 and it's still a long way from done, I'd say all three of us get credit for that crappy task!
awesome, love this.
Hilarious! My former self takes pretty good notes. Unfortunately, she likes to jot them on paper towels, Post-It's and other random scraps of paper and then leaves them in a huge pile on my current self's desk. So not cool!
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