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Devac  ·  1720 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: July 3, 2019

I resigned from my chemistry internship after another day of being assigned anything deemed as slightly too tedious for seemingly anyone else to do. When raising that point, I was told that's how things are done here, so I should deal with it. They hand-picked me because I'm a theorist with strong maths skills and programming chops, so what the fuck was I even doing in a lab, adding concentrated HCl dropwise for six straight hours? I don't care if it makes me look like a total primadonna, that's a willful misuse of my time, and I'm beyond fed up with it being a constant theme in my life.

In less soul-sucking news, I got a whopping 96% from my first-pick PhD programme. Interview dates are to be announced, and I'd probably have to go on a week-long kerosene binge to flunk that one.

Dunno what I'm gonna do for the rest of the summer, but I'll probably just relax this and next week. It's nice to have free time without being bedridden, and I should finally use it.