I get so pissed off when I hear the amount of money football players make! And here I am busting my ass to get my PhD. Maybe in a near future instead of soccer teams in Middle East we will have some freakin' labs there paying me a ton of money to convince me to join. A girl can only dream...

Words of great wisdom

This diagram is only partially correct. If your boss sends you an email just don't open it. It is either work or just problems to be solved. In my case it gets worse since nowadays I have two different bosses. Just my advice: IGNORE!

After all I am not such a bad writer

Usually when I am writing my thesis in good days I get like one or two paragraphs written, today in my acknowledgments section I wrote a full page in only 10 minutes.
Maybe I am missing out on a creative writing  type of job...

This was the sentence of the night

A friend of mine complaining about her work:

Her: Fuckin' rats! I swear that if by tomorrow the fucking rats don't have a tumour, I will be so pissed! I will cry!
Me: Do you realize you are wishing for something to have tumours? You are so going to hell!!

Postdoc: because it is easier than finding a real job

My personal experience so far is that I am not so sure of that statement anymore... And so much work for this:

So tonight I didn't sleep very well thinking on this. Here is my little piece of advice based on my Phd experience. Take whatever you want from it:
1. PhD is not something you are very good at, it is something you survive from.
2. At some point, or very often during Phd you you consider yourself stupid, not very intelligent and you will want to smack yourself in your head from doing what you do.
3. PhD is like roller coaster but with lots of down times. Dealing with failure is what you do for a living, so get used to it! Every now and then, meaning maybe if you are blessed, once or twice a year, you might get a good result, so enjoy your little wins because there is not plenty of that.
4. Bosses are never pleased with you, there is something else you can always be doing and you're not. Not working 24/7 is a major crime, and they don't understand why you don't breath, eat and sleep science. The thing is most of the time they have already forgotten how much time does crap usually take to actually be done. And sometimes (often) they just don't care that you have a life outside lab. But the sad thing is that you actually believe them, that you are a lazy bastard and actually feel terrible about it.
5. You will hate  science, your boss, yourself, the fuckin' world... The good news are, once you finish it goes away, and you are back to your lovely self (at least I did, and yes I am lovely and I don't like you if you don't think so).
I probably could write a lot more about how shitty a Phd can be, but dear friend (yes I am talking to you) , despite whatever you are thinking right now, I believe you are a very smart person, as you should, believe too, and the good news is that you will be just fine!!

MY PAPER HAS ALREADY BEEN ACCEPTED, AND THE REVIEWERS HAD NOTHING TO SAY!!

"WE SHOULD HAVE SHOT HIGHER" BY ONE OF THE OTHER AUTHORS 

I swear this was one of the most difficult things I have ever done

PAPER FINALLY SUBMITTED

You could take some pills, maybe there is still hope for you

This is living proof, that PhD actually damages your brain!! And also that we make every effort to procrastinate instead of actually working. 

This kid, I imagine he is a bright kid, a physics Phd student, decided to do a cover of Bohemian Rapsody but instead of the actual lyrics he decided to sing about String Theory. If you were here, I would pat you on the back and say "It is gonna be ok"!!

WHENEVER PEOPLE ASK ME ABOUT THESIS AND GRADUATION DATES