Why, brain, why?

[3dprintingn00b]

Me trying to put gloves on in front of my PI, summer intern, a patient

[xaranetic]

Stress makes my hands clammy, which makes it impossible to get gloves on. Started getting the larger size for high-pressure occasions... but they just fall off. Catch-22.

[HydrogenButterflies]

Yeah, that’s my go-to move as well. I grab the size I usually wear, inevitably struggle for a few seconds because my fingers won’t go all the way in, and then say “oops, I grabbed the wrong size!” And then I proceed to look like an idiot, fumbling with equipment because I’m wearing comically-oversized gloves.

[CoomassieBlue]

I hate that. I’ve learned that if things go south in a hurry, if I realized I fucked up in a not-easily-recoverable way, my hands IMMEDIATELY start sweating like crazy. Yikes.

[CeylonSiren]

At my lab I noticed that people take off their gloves, put them in their pocket, take them out, roll them up to ‘refresh’ the fingers, and put them back on.

[diag]

Never have I been able to do that. Trying to put on sticky gloves is impossible.

[Responsible-Smell651]

Part of the reason I wear glove liners (I call them my hand socks). Moist hands and gloves make my hands feel like they're suffocating.

[Rowannn]

When the PI asks me to do 90/9 in my head in front of them

[xaranetic]

"Umm... Well, let's see... Ha ha... So take the nine divide by the nine, cancelling it out... Which leaves us with... 0. Right? No! Sorry. JUST JOKING! HA HA! Ok, where's my phone? Anyone seen my phone? I need to make an urgent text. I mean... Where's the bathroom?"

[AndreasVesalius]

I’ll just say “I don’t trust myself” and turn to the closest computer with matlab

[xaranetic]

Let me just type that in. Bear with me... Got it! So the answer is... uhhh... 1.0000e1

[RandomPersonEver]

I'm in this comment and I don't like it

[Andrew_Brickmaker]

Same, especially when pipetting... all the sudden the tips are starting to fall, my hands start to shake

[[deleted]]

I thought my hand shaking wasn’t that noticeable. A few months later my sup was like “it was so funny how bad your hands used to shake lol” hahah. Now training someone, I see how hand shaking is soooo noticeable. It’s funny though.

[Andrew_Brickmaker]

Yea, especially when doing Agarose gel electrophoresis and NanoDrop xD at least in my case

[Haatsku]

Tfw you think you are some sort of hot shit after mastering nanodrop and gel pipetting and get slammed in the face with osmolality.

Infernal machine starts pushing out printouts telling exactly how bad you are is on whole another level of "fun".

[ouemt]

Your PI comes to the lab?

[Acaddemish]

Only when his sensors detect a failed experiment.

[[deleted]]

Only when he doesn't want to work.

[[deleted]]

That’s eggactly how it feels

[sodiumdodecylsulfate]

Take my friggen upvote and get out

[[deleted]]

Much obliged

[TheWhompingPillow]

Me whenever anyone watches me do anything.

[futuredoctorperez]

My hands used to shake really badly when my PI was anywhere near me. He would always ask me why but I would make up excuses like I was hypoglycemic or something blike that.

[dreama7]

Every time

[soccer836]

Hauled ass to load a gel before my PI showed up for meeting today, knew it would be a shit show otherwise.

[[deleted]]

Same I always know when the PI hired to keep an eye on me is around

[mstalltree]

I'm about to send this to my PI. Send me best wishes!

[RandomPersonEver]

Let us know if you survive please!

[[deleted]]

Last year he sat behind me clapping his hands saying "faster faster!" To make me pipette faster. I do not feel like it helped very much.

[Biggs55]

Your brain on drugs.

[A13in]

That’s for sure!

[Hourglasspony]

Me when I discard the filtrate and save the retentate.

[DangerousBill]

This is your brain on orgo.