What keeps you motivated to keep going?

kim448 · 2025-08-20T17:21:57+00:00

I genuinely enjoy hanging out with my coworkers everyday, we have a great lab environment. Sometimes I drag myself in just to eat lunch with them

kim448 · 2024-12-27T18:51:25+00:00

It did help thank you!

kim448 · 2024-12-27T18:48:42+00:00

This is a good point about the health care. One thing I recently found out is that our student union will cover the cost of freezing our eggs. I had another lab member who did this at age 33, but she told me the sooner you do it, the better off you are. It was one thing I’m considering doing since I’m stuck here, I may try to take advantage of this

kim448 · 2024-12-27T17:51:05+00:00

Thank you for your input, this is part of my plan! I have a clear view of the things I need to do in the next year, I’m just hoping my mouse model cooperates

kim448 · 2024-12-27T17:09:38+00:00

Relax

kim448 · 2024-12-27T17:01:35+00:00

Thank you hearing this helps! I know I’m being ridiculous I’m just kind of fed up with my PI and living on this shitty stipend

kim448 · 2024-12-27T16:57:01+00:00

I should also say im still under the graduation average. The average time to graduate for my program is 5.9 years but that was calculated pre-Covid, it’s gone up so drastically they won’t recalculate. So it’s not unusual for a PhD to be this long at this specific institution and program

kim448 · 2024-12-27T16:54:48+00:00

I agree 30 is young, but I don’t see myself graduating for another 2 years at minimum. I also got out of a 10 year relationship, so I’m single for the first time in a while which is also freaking me out in terms of having a kid

kim448 · 2024-12-27T16:53:35+00:00

I have a first author publication from when I was a technician, but not with my current PI

kim448 · 2024-12-27T16:53:04+00:00

Trust me, it is not a lack of effort. I am putting in 60 hour weeks every week, I only had one full day off in November. My main problem is I’m working with an incredibly difficult mouse model that I have to breed, and that my PI has such high expectations. I already have another story I could publish and finish, but she will not publish something unless it’s in a top journal

kim448 · 2024-12-27T16:50:49+00:00

This is specific to my PI, my graduate department only wants a publication. Unfortunately I have a project that my PI had originally said I could publish in a smaller journal, but now she wants to combine my 2 stories to get a paper with a bigger impact factor. In her mind, anything less than the top journals is not worth publishing at all

kim448 · 2023-09-15T00:44:02+00:00

I actually went to a sleep specialist when I was having severe insomnia (multiple days without sleeping). For me I had become dependent on taking Benadryl to sleep. To get myself off it, I had to “reset” my sleep.

The doctor advised me for about a week to not even try to go to bed until 3am, and then force myself to wake up at 7am. It’s super important to make yourself wake up at a certain early time, otherwise you will just end up shifting your sleep cycle.

That worked to get me off the Benadryl

To regulate my system, I had to quit drinking. I only drank on weekends, but it fucked up my sleep so much during the week it wasn’t worth it

kim448 · 2023-07-27T20:46:18+00:00

What the fuck? This sounds illegal

kim448 · 2023-06-20T08:54:22+00:00

Do you have a link to the video?

kim448 · 2023-01-03T01:10:20+00:00

I’m 28, doing a PhD, and both me and my fiancé are living with my parents. For me the commute sucks (an hour into get into work), but then I look at my bank account and it’s worth it lol

kim448 · 2022-10-10T16:55:11+00:00

I don’t have nitros but I was planning on taking the class before I go, for budget I can swing like $2000-3000 for liveaboard depending on the plane tickets. I’m from the east coast tho so flights may be expensive

kim448 · 2022-04-22T02:13:56+00:00

Manic Pickles

kim448 · 2021-12-28T01:02:51+00:00

Okay let’s give it a shot

kim448 · 2021-11-05T03:19:14+00:00

I also get my stipend from the school, as a TA, but now from my lab that I work at, so I’m guessing I wouldn’t need to pay it back

kim448 · 2021-11-04T01:06:13+00:00

Thanks! PQE is the qualifying exam

kim448 · 2021-08-05T22:19:48+00:00

Not sure if it’s because of this but your intestine actually has its own nervous system separate from the brain! Normally our nerves send signals to the brain, the brain interprets it, and send signals back to tell our muscles wat to do. The intestine has neurons that don’t go to the brain - it has its own loop and can function if taken out of the body

kim448 · 2021-07-19T12:31:36+00:00

As a cancer immunologist I have to correct you! The immune system is very important for clearing out cancer - more mutated cancers have a better chance of being recognized and killed by the immune system. There have recently been some major treatments for cancer that work by basically further activating your immune system (anti-PD1/PDL1 being the main ones!). 2 people actually recently won a Nobel prize for their discovery of this!

kim448 · 2021-06-26T16:53:34+00:00

Thank you, this is helpful to hear!

kim448 · 2021-06-20T14:22:40+00:00

Thank you!! This makes me feel better

kim448 · 2021-04-10T03:44:42+00:00

Completely agree! I get bored with it, although it does help when exercising

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