Former Students Share the Wildest Stories They Have From Grad School

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    Font - Carly Anne York, Ph.D. @BiologyCarly What is your most unhinged story from grad school? Mine was probably the time I picked a dead flounder up off the lab floor and then ran to a public bathroom with it in my hands and sobbed over its body in a stall.
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    Font - Carly Anne York, Ph.D. @BiologyCarly Or was it the time that I puked until my nose bled on my first boat outing with my PhD adviser? Hard to say...
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    Product - John P. Friel, Ph.D. @friel. 27 Feb Replying to @BiologyCarly I heard a buzzing sound coming from the room next to my grad school office. When I investigated the source, I found someone had put a carcass into our dermestid beetle colony without freezing it to kill the fly eggs and now there were thousands of adult flies trying to escape. GIF BECAUSE THE FLIES DON'T LIE.
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    Facial expression - Rob O'Malley @Rob_O_Malley Replying to @BiologyCarly Kicked down a hill by a chimpanzee named Frodo. I am 6'3, 260lbs and I was AIRBORNE
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    Gesture - Dr. Alyson Abel (she/her) @adabel_sdsu Replying to @BiologyCarly Called my advisor "mom" on accident.
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    Font - F.C Patrick McCray @LeapingRobot Replying to @BiologyCarly I was contacted by a person who claimed to have a sample of Beethoven's hair. He wanted me to help analyze it in his belief that this might help explain the "unusual rhythms" in the composer's music who might have had "Moorish blood." Hard no.
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    Font - Krista Koeller @KristaLerista Replying to @BiologyCarly My lab was given two tiger limbs for a dissection and when the skin was off, someone wore it over their hand like a mitten (so big!) and my advisor yelled at them because it was disrespectful. I thought that ship had sailed when the cat was dismembered. (Tiger died of old age)
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    Terrestrial plant - safia aidid @safiyaaaay Harvard... where do I even begin? I would say teaching the son of a very famous (late) dictator who has since been charged with embezzling millions in public funds along with his siblings Carly Anne York, Ph.D. @Biolo... 27 Feb What is your most unhinged story from grad school? ● Mine was probably the time I picked a dead flounder up off the lab floor and then ran to ... Show this thread
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    Font - Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine I once taught a neo-Nazi who needed to learn German to use during a battle reenactment Carly Anne York, Ph.D. @Biolo... • 27 Feb What is your most unhinged story from grad school? Mine was probably the time I picked a dead flounder up off the lab floor and then ran to ... Show this thread
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    Font - Nathan rd @rochellehd i found a half eaten sheet cake on top of a trash can by the library and took it to the grad student offices where we all shared it and had a great afternoon with trash cake. Carly Anne York, Ph.D. @Biolo.... 27 Feb What is your most unhinged story from grad school? Mine was probably the time I picked a dead flounder up off the lab floor and then ran to ... Show this thread
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    Font - Craig Rodriguez-Seijas, PhD @CraigAnthonyRS The time I brought a bottle of cafe patron for our Year One Externalizing Intervention final exam and we all sipped it from mugs while writing the exam. .. +++++ It's been long enough I can admit this publicly and not get in trouble right? Carly Anne York, Ph.D. @Biolo... · 27 Feb What is your most unhinged story from grad school? Mine was probably the time I picked a dead flounder up off the lab floor and then ran to ... Show this thread
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    Font - Pevitr S. Bansal @PevBansal There was a dead rodent (#RIP) in the room I was going to defend my diss in One of committee members was like "no its fine we can stay here" but they clearly were not fine with it. We switched rooms and I dedicated my defense to that rodent A Carly Anne York, Ph.D. @Biolo... 27 Feb What is your most unhinged story from grad school? ● Mine was probably the time I picked a dead flounder up off the lab floor and then ran to ... Show this thread
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    Font - josh grubbs (@JoshuaGrubbs... @JoshuaGrubbsPhD We interviewed an undergrad for our first year clinical interviewing class. The Professor hand picked this student because he was non-traditional, older, and a veteran. We all loved interviewing him, thought he was so cool. Two weeks later he murdered his wife. Carly Anne York, Ph.D. @Biolo... 27 Feb ● What is your most unhinged story from grad school? Mine was probably the time I picked a dead flounder up off the lab floor and then ran to ..
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    Font - Dr. Niki Khan @bula_niki An honours student had freeze-dried cat poop to analyse for metabolites and turned on the air con in the lab. Cat poop dust everywhere. She buggered off without cleaning any of it up. Carly Anne York, Ph.D. @Biolo... 27 Feb What is your most unhinged story from grad school? ● Mine was probably the time I picked a dead flounder up off the lab floor and then ran to ... Show this thread
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    Font - 13 ft (((hellenized))) @ft_variations Oh wow. So many. Best one might be the time I wrote a letter to the dean explaining in detail why our stipends weren't enough to live on and in response the university asked me to undergo psychiatric evaluation. Carly Anne York, Ph.D. @Biolo.... 27 Feb What is your most unhinged story from grad school? Mine was probably the time I picked a dead flounder up off the lab floor and then ran to ... Show this thread
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    Forehead - Glenn Sullivan @drglenn... 02 Mar Guy came in for a neuropsych eval, worried about dementia. Boasted about his IQ and science background. Gave us a list of chemicals he was exposed to in his work. Said he spent a lot of time in Mexico, "fishing." The chemicals were all meth precursors.
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    Font - Dr Sarah Taber @SarahTaber_bww the official designated bathroom at the field site was a patch of woods you had to jump a ditch to get there and since it was Florida, you had to look both ways for gators before jumping the ditch Carly Anne York, Ph.D. @Biolo... 27 Feb What is your most unhinged story from grad school? ● Mine was probably the time I picked a dead flounder up off the lab floor and then ran to ... Show this thread
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    Font - Mx. D. E. Anderson @diannaeanderson Professor: "Who's the audience for this Cisneros book?" Classmate: "Mexican-American immigrants." Prof: "yeah but do they read?" We were in TEXAS. Carly Anne York, Ph.D. @Biolo... 27 Feb What is your most unhinged story from grad school? Mine was probably the time I picked a dead flounder up off the lab floor and then ran to …... Show this thread
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    Font - Erin Westgate @ErinWestgate I had a fish tank in my grad school office. I'm in Texas for break, & my advisor is going in and feeding them everyday. I get a frantic phone call from him shortly before midnight (on New Year's Eve) that my fish were "exploding." Dear reader: babies. They were having babies Carly Anne York, Ph.D. @Biolo... 27 Feb What is your most unhinged story from grad school? ● Mine was probably the time I picked a dead flounder up off the lab floor and then ran to ... Sho

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