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>spend two weeks making a poster for a conference
>data is shitty so I’m basically polishing a turd
>conference comes around it’s in the middle of nowhere filled with autists
>poster looks like shit hanging up because of folding in the tube
>nobody even comes by poster to ask about it
>look like a failure
>feel like a failure
>feel embarrassed for myself and my lab

Why do I even do this. Literally anything would be better than a phd in STEM