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[Nrelo]

Last month I was very busy on preparing for a seminar. I even worked on Sat & Sun. The seminar passed and I took this weekend doing nothing.
How's your weekend guys?

p.s I find that some of my colleagues always work on Sat & Sun (either lab work or paper work). Just want to know whether it is common at your lab. I should admit that working on weekend is quite enjoyable coz the supervisor is not there

[Doki]

nothing interesting really happened - setting up experiments, running them, analysing them, partying, sleeping, washing . . . reflecting like this makes me feel life is just passing by without much things in life.

[LostintheLab]

I did no lab work this weekend- this is good. During my PhD I spent many weekends in the lab and got very tired as a consequence, now I limit the time I have to come in at the weekend. I like my free time to go and play tennis or go hiking or just sleep and be lazy and realise there is life outside of the lab.

[toejam]

LostintheLab, on Jun 22 2009, 04:13 AM, said:

"there is life outside of the lab"

is there? maybe during the first year, but after that i've been warned there's nothing but lab work...

[Doki]

toejam, on Jun 24 2009, 06:01 PM, said:

LostintheLab, on Jun 22 2009, 04:13 AM, said:

"there is life outside of the lab"

is there? maybe during the first year, but after that i've been warned there's nothing but lab work...

that's the second year . .. after that there are other stages. . . U realise there is 'life outside lab too' but firmly believe that 'u r an alien'

[LostintheLab]

Ah...the life of a PhD student- those days are far behind me (and yes in the your final years you forget what the term weekend actually stands for), so now I try to not work at weekends ...

But I am an alien too- I even have a special card that tells me I am

Live long and prosper

[Doki]

Saturday afternoon - ballpark / evening - lab / night - movies.
Sunday morning - sleeping / afternoon - cooking / night - eating-drinking.

[LostintheLab]

watching your carps play?

this weekend- Saturday morning- tennis, afternoon - sleeping, evening- eating and sleeping

- Sunday morning- lab and shopping, Afternoon- cooking and BBQ- evening - BBQ and drinking

Monday morning- hangover in lab

[virusfan]

Weekends are still working days for me. If I'm not working in the lab, I will be sitting in front of the computer to analyse micrographs and prepare reports.

[LostintheLab]

Do you not feel tired and out of touch with the rest of the world if you do that for many weeks at a time?