Just Some Gratitude

I am a big fan of saying Thank you to people. I am also a huge fan of writing unnecessarily long letters sharing that gratitude. And while I am still going to do that for my lab, I feel like I should share some silly moments that I am thankful for...

Thank you REU fellows for not thinking I was a complete freak when I opened our first conversation with, "What animal would you ride in to battle?"

Thank you Emma for getting ice cream with me instead of staying up too late at the movies.

Thank you Dr. Vaughan for reminding me of the differences between Amish and Mennonite People

Thank you fellow undergraduate for reminding me why I am glad that I am no longer premed

Thank you Dr. Whaley for literally always bringing food along with you.

Thank you grad student for putting your name on the plates we poured together so they could blame you if they were all contaminated.

Thank you Post Doc for constantly complimenting my pearls.

Thank you NPC meeting for giving me a few good stories to laugh about.

Thank you Morgan for understanding my desperate need to go to coffee shops.

Thank you room 613 for sprouting mold so I was forced to do laundry and pack two weeks before leaving.


Thank you roommate for letting me go to bed at 9pm and wake you up for the gym at 5:30am.

Thank you to my PI's wife who understood my sass.

Thank you random old people who sat next to me at Mass for holding my hand during the Our Father.

Just watch. This struggle could be so real.

Thank you random grad students for letting me play trivia with y'all even though I contributed essentially nothing.

Thank you Vaughan lab for teaching me that it is OK to not say anything for several hours and that I won't spontaneously combust if I do.

Thank you Darby for taking us in to the Daughters of Saint Paul book store when we went to Chicago.

Thank you grad student for knowing how to troubleshoot every mistake by already having made the same mistake.

Thank you Kevin for walking through my lab weekly and giving me something to give you crap about.

Thank you chemist for existing in the biology lab. You kept me sane.

Thank you to the physics REU kids who always ate my cookies.

Thank you to Hal, my microscope, for not breaking down when I did.

Thank you Netflix for understanding just how exhausted I was in the evenings and sticking with me.

Thank you to Dr. Vaughan for reminding me that sarcasm is arguably the most intelligent form of humor.

Thank you to Notre Dame's Yik Yak for actually being humorous.

Thank you to COS7 cells for being strong enough to deal with my constant abuse.

Thank you to the speakers I found in the back corner that made my Sunday dance parties in the lab that much more enjoyable.

Thank you to South Bend weather for always giving me a reason to change an outfit and only have to wear my rain boots for a couple of hours.

Thank you to the lakes that taught me that geese are not kind creatures.

Thank you to lysosome related proteins for giving me 48 hours of free time every experiment

If you couldn't tell...that really long incubation period is why I had time to write this....oh the life of a cell biologist. You can't get me back to Biochemistry any faster...