Thursday, June 12, 2008

lab slave

Ah, a whole 2 months has passed since I last updated this blog. Nothing publishable has happened to me as I have been working around the clock in laboratory like a slave. This excuses me. No?

But, I found lab work less stressful. Lab work is team work, while researchers in theoretical fields like social science and math work individually. So I don't have to feel that it is all my fault if the project goes wrong. Besides, for a project to go well, only a few of the members have to generate good data. When I was in social science, I had been wondering why a life science paper has so many co-authors. Now the reason is becoming clear to me.