How Research Works: XXVI

THE LAB: 5pm

JUNIOR GRAD STUDENT
Man.  Presentations sure are stressful.  How do you deal with all the anxiety?

SENIOR GRAD STUDENT
Whenever I get stressed about something like that I just remember that I'll be here forever.

JUNIOR GRAD STUDENT
Wait.  How... how does that help anything?

SENIOR GRAD STUDENT
Just think about how most of your efforts won't  immediately result in anything tangible.

JUNIOR GRAD STUDENT
But they will later right?

SENIOR GRAD STUDENT
Eh.  By the time you graduate there probably won't be any jobs in science left.  Janitors make more money than us anyway... so no big loss I guess.

JUNIOR GRAD STUDENT
...!?

SENIOR GRAD STUDENT
Please try not to have an existential crisis in the lab.  We wouldn't want to upset the janitors.