top ten lies by grad students - (Jan/26/2009 )

lab rat on Dec 1 2009, 08:25 AM said:

lol......my labbook is actually my pendrive....lol....

adrian kohsf on Dec 1 2009, 07:30 AM said:

hey ak... not a good idea!!! never rely on electronics,... better have things jotted down too!!!
i had a hard tie wen my system and my pen drive crashed during my post grad dissertation!!!

48. You kit is missing?? . I used a bit of reagent A and kept it right here!!!!
49. Hey the PI was telling u are the best person to be contacted for this calculation!!
50. No I dint do it, may be she /he did!!!

Pradeep Iyer on Dec 1 2009, 01:42 PM said:

Hi Pradeep, thanks for your advice...I used to did print it out once in a week... I mean I used to...haha...

51. I'm not sleeping, I'm thinking

This one was...from me. My boss caught me sleeping on my desk
Nice way to start a postdoc, right?

LOL. One of my classmates once fell asleep in lecture, in the front row. The prof prodded her and asked, "Are you sleeping?"

She said, "No, that was just a long blink."

52. pH doesn't matter. The cells can handle pH shifts.

53. This is representative graph of 5 experiments.

54. Ya i have proof that this thing works. Well I might have to search the research article which says this!!!
55. I think there is some problem with the chemical that was ordered!!!

56. I don't know why there is a virus on that lab computer, I always run a virus checks on my USB stick.

57. The plasmid is missing? No, I never used it.

58. I cleaned the scales up, someone must have made messed it up again after me.

59. I have three replicates showing this effect.

60. No, I didn't use the vial of XL-10 gold for my retransformations.

61. I don't know why your pipette is on my bench...

62. I have never had an infection in tissue culture.

63. This could be a nature paper.

64. I could produce a nature paper given enough research funding....say like 2 million...