It goes way beyond that, although that is part of it.
If I wrote that the couple of years that you were in the lab were the best couple of years of my Ph.D. experience, other people may feel left out. So I have to be cordial and thank everybody equally, even though we both know that you are my favorite labmate, and without you I would've died in there.
Ahhhh, the good old days of "Cellular and Developmental Biology," more commonly known as "Cell Hell." The two profs who tag-team-taught the class even came in the first day, took off their oxford shirts and showed off their t-shirts that read, "CELL HELL
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Man, organic kicked my arse (says the girl who "scraped by" with a B), and I hated it, passionately. I found it completely pointless to memorize all these wanky little reactions that made no sense to me and didn't help me understand anything any better than I had before. Cell hell gave me a better appreciation and much longer-lasting memory of cellular mechanics. It's sad I'ver forgotten so much of it, though, like all those housekeeping genes! Wheeeeee!
Of course, as Calvin and Hobbes said, "For some reason, at school they prefer to teach you things that any idiot could look up in a book."
I LOVE Calvin and Hobbes. I've never seen that cartoon about school though. I NEED to find that cartoon!!!
And yeah, it was temporary insanity brought on by acute studyitis that made me say I prefered orgo. The only contribution orgo has made to my life is in the form of a neat little molecule kit which provides hours of entertainment when stoned or drunk.
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*sighs*
I hope to be done it all by Thursday too. You're mentioned in the acknowledgements section. Can't say what I want to say, but you're there.
Good luck Thursday! I'm sending psychic good vibes your way.
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"Can't say what I want to say"
Does this have to do with Farrah N'Hyt?
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If I wrote that the couple of years that you were in the lab were the best couple of years of my Ph.D. experience, other people may feel left out. So I have to be cordial and thank everybody equally, even though we both know that you are my favorite labmate, and without you I would've died in there.
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And, though I hope it goes without saying, ditto.
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And you are hereby forbidden from making references to receptor tyrosine kinases during the day, when I don't have to think about them.
Also the word "pathway." I don't want to hear it anymore. What I WANT is to activate Me via the beer consumption pathway.
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Man, organic kicked my arse (says the girl who "scraped by" with a B), and I hated it, passionately. I found it completely pointless to memorize all these wanky little reactions that made no sense to me and didn't help me understand anything any better than I had before. Cell hell gave me a better appreciation and much longer-lasting memory of cellular mechanics. It's sad I'ver forgotten so much of it, though, like all those housekeeping genes! Wheeeeee!
Of course, as Calvin and Hobbes said, "For some reason, at school they prefer to teach you things that any idiot could look up in a book."
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And yeah, it was temporary insanity brought on by acute studyitis that made me say I prefered orgo. The only contribution orgo has made to my life is in the form of a neat little molecule kit which provides hours of entertainment when stoned or drunk.
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