One of the engineering buildings has red lights on top of it. And before you ask, no, they are not Christmas lights. More like warning lights--especially like the ones flashing above closed lab doors indicating that radiation is in use.
"Undergraduate research? You suck."
I'm not quite sure what to make of the King of Spoons' comment. Perhaps he is remarking upon the fact that all my time is gone due to "my affair with the lab" and that I'm not available to finish the mural that he is always harassing me about. But unlike most other people who do undergraduate research here, I get paid. I never understood why you can't get credit and money at the same time--and I understand even less the requirements for credit (which limits you to only 6 hours in the lab).
Perhaps people want free time. Sometimes it's almost obscene that others have four day weekends and nothing productive to show for it. So senior year, you're either a slacker or a sleep-deprived lab rat. And remarkably, you can predict who is which by what their major is.
