lost__in__space Posted May 17, 2009 Report Share Posted May 17, 2009 Come out of the woodwork Masters students! I just started mine but who else here is a Masters student? Party up in the lab! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparkles3288 Posted May 17, 2009 Report Share Posted May 17, 2009 I'm starting my MSc in aug. But i'm up for parties in the lab. whooo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninjaface Posted May 17, 2009 Report Share Posted May 17, 2009 Finished mine up already. Also neuro. Also had a beer fridge but it was in our office, not the lab. After my defense (like 3 am that morning), my supervisor took me to steal my desk from the office and bring it out to his ranch to start a bonfire. Good times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdai Posted May 17, 2009 Report Share Posted May 17, 2009 *peeks in* What? No free food? *leaves* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Law Posted May 17, 2009 Report Share Posted May 17, 2009 Should start mine soon I hope!! (lol @ Palin) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostintime Posted May 17, 2009 Report Share Posted May 17, 2009 Ha our lab always tried to find excuses to have drinking parties in the middle of the day too. As soon as someone was leaving or getting their degree or some award, off to drinking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janny_jan Posted May 17, 2009 Report Share Posted May 17, 2009 woop woop! my co-advisor asks us to give him a bottle of wine when we started our degree and he'll save it and drink it with us when we graduate! hahaha! Also, the best tasting beer i've ever had was the free ones we got from my TA supervisor after we finished marking undergrade anatomy bellringers I'm almost finished my first year of my masters at UWO and loving every moment of it. Research is not a waste of time!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
switcheroo Posted May 18, 2009 Report Share Posted May 18, 2009 woop woop! my co-advisor asks us to give him a bottle of wine when we started our degree and he'll save it and drink it with us when we graduate! hahaha! Also, the best tasting beer i've ever had was the free ones we got from my TA supervisor after we finished marking undergrade anatomy bellringers I'm almost finished my first year of my masters at UWO and loving every moment of it. Research is not a waste of time!! Agreed! I love research! Though I'm happy to take a break from it this summer before I start med school. Why does every lab have booze? Both my undergrad and grad labs did... Not that I'm complaining, but it certainly doesn't fit the stereotypical nerdy researcher picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewfieMike Posted May 18, 2009 Report Share Posted May 18, 2009 my first day working an NSERC in 08 was a friday afternoon after a grad student had just found a significant finding in her data. There was a pretty big celebration in the lab. A few frequent trips to the communal ice machine down the hall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janny_jan Posted May 18, 2009 Report Share Posted May 18, 2009 my first day working an NSERC in 08 was a friday afternoon after a grad student had just found a significant finding in her data. There was a pretty big celebration in the lab. A few frequent trips to the communal ice machine down the hall HAHAHHA! only a grad student would want to get drunk and celebrate after finding significance....that's awesome! At the grad club (grad students/prof bar) at Western, there is a goblet of knowledge you can reserve to drink out of after your defence/comps/dissertation....first drink is freeeeeee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lost__in__space Posted May 18, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 18, 2009 HAHAHHA! only a grad student would want to get drunk and celebrate after finding significance....that's awesome! At the grad club (grad students/prof bar) at Western, there is a goblet of knowledge you can reserve to drink out of after your defence/comps/dissertation....first drink is freeeeeee HAHAHA good to know!!! and good old Grad Club... do you venture there for lunch some days? My lab has its own spot there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lost__in__space Posted May 18, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 18, 2009 Oh PS: am I in the only neuro lab in the world without a beer fridge??? and does anyone read PhD comics? We tape them to our non-beer fridge lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewfieMike Posted May 18, 2009 Report Share Posted May 18, 2009 some grad students work so much that I think they'd never make it without booze to get them by, haha. Today for example, one PhD student at my lab divided his funding salary by the hours he works per year, and it worked out to be $2.11 an hour Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninjaface Posted May 18, 2009 Report Share Posted May 18, 2009 Oh PS: am I in the only neuro lab in the world without a beer fridge??? and does anyone read PhD comics? We tape them to our non-beer fridge lol. Are you sure you're in neuro, and didn't accidentally sign up for something else? The PhD comics sounds about right though... maybe you just haven't looked hard enough for the fridge? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooty Posted May 18, 2009 Report Share Posted May 18, 2009 i wish i was remotely close to being that happy as a master's student i'm also in neuro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewfieMike Posted May 18, 2009 Report Share Posted May 18, 2009 man is everyone who posted on this thread in neuro? haha cause i am Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninjaface Posted May 18, 2009 Report Share Posted May 18, 2009 i wish i was remotely close to being that happy as a master's student i'm also in neuro He just started his... I definitely wouldn't say I enjoyed my Master's. The theory behind it, yeah. The 14 hour days with no-one to appreciate you or interact with you at the end but a freezer bag full of dead rats and a few pennies an hour... not so much. Not to scare you Lost. THere's good times to be had for sure, especially if you do it right and love your project. Many I met in there would never have it any other way. And I went through a divorce in the middle of mine. That probably didn't help with my disposition/perspective. Edit: A recommendation - don't just choose your project based solely on the theory you are most interested in, also take into account as a secondary consideration what you will actually be doing with the many hours of your day you will be working. I started doing something I thought was really cool, but involved countless hours of floating tissue microsections through colourless liquid bath after colourless liquid bath (AKA immunohistochemistry). I ended up switching to something still neat and publishable and important, but not as mind blowing to me, because I found behavioural experiments to be more interesting to actually conduct. I could never have handled 2 straight years of immunohistochemistry, no matter how theoretically interesting the results were. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobynM Posted May 18, 2009 Report Share Posted May 18, 2009 I'll represent the non-neuro grad student!! And I am SOOOOO happy that in 1 week and 1 day I will have my thesis defended and run far far away from basic research!! It takes a really special kind of person to be able to deal with academic research and i'm really happy that other people are able to enjoy it but I now know that it is not for me. And PhD comics are awesome! It's scary how accurate they can be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janny_jan Posted May 18, 2009 Report Share Posted May 18, 2009 I'm not in neuro either! Kinesiology masters looking at pediatric cardiac health. And yes, Ph.D comics are amazing! The author was at Western for the research fair and he was HILARIOUS! Lost_in_space, i'm at the grad club almost every friday for TGIF beers and nachos! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparkles3288 Posted May 18, 2009 Report Share Posted May 18, 2009 Im not in neuro--microbiology!!. I want a beer fridge too...haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whale.of.a.time Posted May 18, 2009 Report Share Posted May 18, 2009 PhD comics are the best. So many hilarious things to relate to We had a beer bookcase...a little weird, I know! We'd take all the beer left over from our field seasons and pile them onto a bookcase for late night de-stressing since we lacked a fridge. Desperate? Maybe. Deliciously disgusting? Definitely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobynM Posted May 18, 2009 Report Share Posted May 18, 2009 I'm so jealous of all of you and your beer fridges/bookcases! The closest we have in my department is every so often there's leftovers drinks hidden away in one of the walk-in coolers (kinda gross cuz that's where all the cell culture media is kept). But all the drinks in there are for grad student functions, not random consumption. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lost__in__space Posted May 18, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 18, 2009 He just started his... I definitely wouldn't say I enjoyed my Master's. The theory behind it, yeah. The 14 hour days with no-one to appreciate you or interact with you at the end but a freezer bag full of dead rats and a few pennies an hour... not so much. Not to scare you Lost. THere's good times to be had for sure, especially if you do it right and love your project. Many I met in there would never have it any other way. And I went through a divorce in the middle of mine. That probably didn't help with my disposition/perspective. Edit: A recommendation - don't just choose your project based solely on the theory you are most interested in, also take into account as a secondary consideration what you will actually be doing with the many hours of your day you will be working. I started doing something I thought was really cool, but involved countless hours of floating tissue microsections through colourless liquid bath after colourless liquid bath (AKA immunohistochemistry). I ended up switching to something still neat and publishable and important, but not as mind blowing to me, because I found behavioural experiments to be more interesting to actually conduct. I could never have handled 2 straight years of immunohistochemistry, no matter how theoretically interesting the results were. Noooo I'm a female!!!!!!!!!!!! but as for project, it's in a field I love with a great supervisor, and I'm continuing the research of the Master's student I'm replacing and I find it to be fascinating. I've already run through a lot of the data analysis techniques as well and so far so good! Boring sometimes but doable and I don't have to deal with animals. And my lab group kicks ass (minus the beer fridge...I have an old mini fridge kicking around my apartment maybe I will start my lab's beer fridge??). Hopefully my enthusiasm stays but then again my undergrad was TOTAL CRAP so I think anything will be better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobynM Posted May 18, 2009 Report Share Posted May 18, 2009 Your post is so pitiful. I just want to buy you a drink and make it all better... Aww, that's so sweet! I feel extra pitiful right now cuz i've been stuck in the lab this whole long weekend all by myself! But don't worry I get enough drinks to sustain me through my masters, just not conveniently located in the lab! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninjaface Posted May 19, 2009 Report Share Posted May 19, 2009 Noooo I'm a female!!!!!!!!!!!! Oops, sorry. Your bull avatar made me assume. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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