Abhijit's Adventure
Abhijit's Adventure Abhijit was a diligent and hard-working Ph.D. student at a prestigious Midwest medical school. Coming from an Indian background he didn’t lack in enthusiasm and back breaking hard work. The only thing lacking in his life was good data. Despite being in 5th year of his grad degree he was not making much progress on his goals. As a true Ph.D. student, his motto to overcome the obstacles was to work even harder. Abhijit’s PI once remarked "until you finish your Ph.D. you have only one job... to finish your Ph.D. The onus is on you to finish your project on time. So plan your experiments properly, make efficient use of your time. Plan your experiments irrespective of whether it’s weekend or not. Having no family frees you from bothering of not working on weekend". Abhijit couldn’t muster any arguments against that chain of thought. Being on a visa and desperate to finish his Ph.D. he did as he was told and planned his experiments on weekends too. That ...