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Jake Young is a MD/PhD student at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in NYC getting a PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience. He holds a BS and MS in Biological Sciences from Stanford University. If a volcano were to erupt Pompei-style in Central Park, his body would be preserved in a scoliotic posture over his lab desk. Archeaologists would later conclude that he spent most of his day training rats to perform tricks, until he went blind building electrical equipment by hand using a dissecting microscope. But, still, he died happy...because science is cool.

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All-Nighter Ho!

Posted on: June 21, 2006 10:22 PM, by NotoriousLTP

I am doing an all-nighter at the lab -- I know, how deliciously freshmen history paper of me. I also have a lot of free time as I am waiting for RT-PCRs to finish. Thus, I have decided to post something in every channel of Scienceblogs in one flurry of all-night bloggery. So watch for them. I already got physical sciences (I know pretty pictures is cheating but maybe I will find something better).

Here's a question for you? Do you think being a good grad student requires committment-demonstrating-all-nighters? Do grad students who spend their lives at lab do better in the long run?

Because if that is not true, I am so going home...

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Oh, my goodness.

It sounds like you are not lazy enough.

The Lazy Way to Success my have some ideas for you.

Polly A.

Posted by: Polly Anna | June 21, 2006 11:42 PM

Hey come on, man, you're making us all look bad. Although, I have to say that when I'm in the lab I at least do my best to... ah hem... look like I'm working. I think you might be blowing your cover by spending a whole night publishing posts on the internet.... ;-)

Posted by: Nick Anthis | June 22, 2006 7:58 PM