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The Infamous Interviews

By apalazzo on March 10, 2006.

My first retrospective!

OK, here is a collection of interviews I conducted over the past couple of months over Instant Messenger. No animals were harmed in this production (this statement was inspired by last night's dinner at Buddhas' Delight).

Have fun ...

Interview with Bil (aka The life of a new PI)
Interview with a Crazy Scientist (aka The life of a wannabe PI)
Interview with a Tall Medstudent (aka The life of someone who wanted to be a PI, and wokeup one day in the midst of his postdoc and said "that life is for suckers")
Interview with my Dad (aka What is all the fuss about being a PI in the biomedical sciences? I'm in it for the love physics!)

{Update}
For those not acquainted with the abbreviation, PI = Principal Investigator = Laboratory head.

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