Inspired by the chemistry blog...(a few borrowed)
You know you're a lab rat when:
You open the toothpaste with one hand.
You wash your hands before and after using to the washroom.
When you hear tween, you think of the surfactant not the age group.
For you, media is something which increases your culture.
You can identify organs on roadkills.
You have a callus on your thumb.
You use the word "aliquot" in regular sentences.
Sometimes you momentarily vanish from social activities because of a timepoint.
You've never worn a clean lab coat.
You don't fear rodents, rodents fear you.
You say "orders of magnitude" in regular sentences.
You flinch when you hear the word "significant".
Showing up at 10AM and having a coffee is a productive day.
You can't stand god-like physicians, while secretly wishing you had their job.
You're very good at diluting things.
You're also very good at transferring small amounts of liquid between containers.
You are fed up of people saying alcohol, when they mean ethanol.
You hear the word ‘Molar’ and teeth are the last thing on your mind.
You say “conjugation” instead of “sex”, and "pili" sounds dirty.
SOB is not an insult, it's what you grow your bugs in.
You say "mills" and "megs".
No-one in your family has any idea what you do.
You can make a short film in power point.
You consider a green laser pointer to be science bling.
A falcon is not a bird....
And you have 5 of them with different types of water.
When your fruits go bad and you get fruit flies, you can't help but check their eye colour
You own invitrogen t-shirts and actually wear them.
You think that drosophila geneticists have a good sense of humour.
You refer to your children as the F1.
You've suffered carpal tunnel from the pipetman.
You've used kimwipes as kleenex.
A timer clipped to the hip is not only practical, but dead sexy.
You've played Battleship using tip boxes.
The front pages of Science is your light reading.
You think the following is a quality insult: "I've seen cells
more competent than you!".
The scent of latex reminds you of work, not play.
You're looking for a cooking book by maniatis.
You've used, "I'd like to get into your genes" as a pickup line.
You've made dry ice grenades.
You've lost many friends to ice grenades...
You pick fights with quacks and creationists :)
ReplyDeleteThe stains on your lab coat have become hard-set patterns that welcome new additions every year
ReplyDeleteYou have prescription goggles
"Dense" makes you think not of an insult but of the centrifuge.
In the summer you have outside shoes and inside shoes.
ReplyDelete...you read this list to see how many applied to you.
ReplyDeleteYou need an electronic security card to move between floors.
ReplyDeleteYour computer is worth more than your car.
You know the channel numbers for the Discovery (and Discovery Health), Learning, Science Channel, Surgery, NASA, SciFi, and National Geographic.
You TIVO Myth Busters.
You wonder how many g's set your washing machine to before doing laundry.
ReplyDeleteYou like to think of computer parts as "subunits".
you check the meniscus when measuring liquids in the kitchen
ReplyDeleteWhen doing laundry you have thought at least once about improvising the washing machine into a centrifuge...
ReplyDeleteYou want to use a magnetic stirrer in your kitchen!
ReplyDeleteYou don't put YOUR "gel" in your hair.
ReplyDeleteYour best jigsaw was a 20 piece S. Blot.
ReplyDeleteYou know what an S. Blot is.
Your eppi pen is not for allergies, but the sharpie you use to write on your tubes...
ReplyDeleteYou use et al. outside of science writing.
ReplyDeleteYou notice everyone else is making more money than you
ReplyDeleteYou subconsciously reach for your 70% ethanol bottle after touching things in the kitchen.
ReplyDeleteYou have to turn off shows like CSI in disgust when they pipet bubbles or get HPLC results in 30 seconds.
ReplyDeleteYou name your "Rock Band" the In Vitro Gentlemen and honestly think it is an awesome name for a band.
ReplyDeleteYou name your triathlon relay team the wild types and think it's an awesome name.
ReplyDeleteYou know exactly what 10 microliters of liquid looks like.
ReplyDeleteWhen you get yogurt or sour cream from a container at home you barely open the lid and use a *really* clean spoon.
ReplyDelete"Hedgehog" makes you think about cell signaling, not a prickly mammal.
ReplyDeleteInstead of saran wrap in your kitchen, you have parafilm.
On Fridays, you enjoy high-throuhgput drinking.
Your boss thinks your name is Mouselady ... and you don't argue with him.
ReplyDeleteYou've taken a microscope camping.
ReplyDeleteYou name your pets / children after your favorite molecules.
ReplyDeleteBefore when I told someone I was going to blast a protein, I was refering to a Friday night. Now it refers to a Monday morning.
ReplyDeleteYou know exactly what are the effects of the drugs you take...
ReplyDelete... you are more comfortable working a half-million dollar instrument than your home stereo.
ReplyDelete... you use scientific numbers in everyday language.
... when discussing beer at a party, you are able to detail the biochemistry involved in the fermentation process.
... you know what all those chemicals are for in the ingredients list of your shampoo, and where to find their MSDS's.
... you know what the "Flying Spaghetti Monster" is, and think of it every time you eat pasta.
... Avogadro's Number is involved in the way you count things.
And your 6-year old know more about bacteria and DNA than a regular 6-year-old.
ReplyDeleteYou are really pist that this thread is issued to biologists, not molecular biologists
ReplyDeleteYou tend to answer questions with more questions.
ReplyDeleteYou know exactly how many milliliters are in one shot.
You name your pets after famous scientists and think it is "cute".
You have put some form of hard liquor in the -80, or liq. N2, to cool it down faster.
You know what liq. N2 is.
You tell your doctor what prescription to write.
-WF
not all biologists though. wildlife biologists still considers the falcon as a bird :)
ReplyDeleteYou know you're engaged to a scientist when you have spent 16 hours in a lab even though you don't have (ni una puñetera idea) a freaking clue what most things in there are, AND you received this website and you actually get some of the comments
ReplyDelete...when you get good data, you post it on facebook with exclamations and happy faces AND you have friends that know what it is you're happy about.
ReplyDeleteWhen a large shipment of tips, eppis, etc. arrives and it feels to you like Christmas.
When you get super happy your lab is getting a nanodrop.
too good to see this Thanks for such A nice post
ReplyDeleteCall any food recepie "a protocol' and the ingredients required "reagents'.
ReplyDeleteYou feel yourself very badly when in the CSI series the "scientist" does not put a balance tube into the centrifuge.
ReplyDeleteyou are a biologist if you LAB coat. :)
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