Things I Dislike About My Lab
- That, although it’s within a highly regarded and technologically advanced hospital, wireless internet, more or less, does not exist. When it does, it’s bootlegged off someone else’s network, not the University’s, and it’s colicky, oscillating in and out in intervals lasting between 15 seconds and 15 minutes. This makes Pubmed searches extraordinarily difficult. The hospital cites “financial reasons” for remaining medieval.
- That the room I work in is as hot or hotter than our warm room, which is kept at a steady 37°C, or 98.6°F, and provides one with a blast of 25 extra degrees of suntasticness upon entering from the hallway. I literally went into the warm room today to see which was hotter—the warm room or the main room itself—and in doing so I cooled off. The governing thermostat, which may actually be the prototype thermostat back from when air conditioning was invented, is set to 54°F, placing it squarely under the category of “broke-ass.”
Other than that, it’s a pretty cool place.









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