{"id":3227,"date":"2010-06-09T12:16:55","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T03:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/?p=3227"},"modified":"2010-06-19T14:31:10","modified_gmt":"2010-06-19T05:31:10","slug":"life-of-a-research-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/06\/09\/life-of-a-research-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Life of a Research Student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Minutes from the first meeting of the organisational committee for the Joint Bioinformatics Center&#8217;s Grad Student Presentation Day:<\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>P-san: <\/strong> Ok, now that we have set the presentation schedule for the day, we need to name the session chairs. And a time-keeper for each session.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dave: <\/strong> That&#8217;s easy: there are three sessions, there&#8217;s three of us&#8230; We each chair one session.<\/p>\n<p><strong>K-san: <\/strong> Actually&#8230; The goal is to <em>avoid<\/em> doing it ourself. Chairing sessions is a real pain in the ass.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dave: <\/strong> Good point.<\/p>\n<p><strong>K-san: <\/strong> There are three participating labs. For time-keepers, we&#8217;ll just pick the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Senpai_and_k\u014dhai\"><i>k\u014dhai<\/i><\/a> in each of the three labs&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>P-san: <\/strong> <i>nods in assentiment<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dave: <\/strong> Great idea. Stupid <i>k\u014dhais<\/i>, gotta be good for something.<\/p>\n<p><strong>K-san: <\/strong> For session chair, we&#8217;ll just ask one senior member from each lab to volunteer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>P-san, Dave: <\/strong> Sounds good&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dave: <\/strong> Wait a minute&#8230; There is only <em>one<\/em> research student in my lab: <strong>me<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p><strong>K-san: <\/strong> Oh&#8230; that&#8217;s right.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dave: <\/strong> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>K-san: <\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dave: <\/strong> Chotto FML.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minutes from the first meeting of the organisational committee for the Joint Bioinformatics Center&#8217;s Grad Student Presentation Day: P-san: Ok, now that we have set the presentation schedule for the day, we need to name the session chairs. And a time-keeper for each session. Dave: That&#8217;s easy: there are three sessions, there&#8217;s three of us&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3227"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3270,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3227\/revisions\/3270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}