Okay but why does people ever think that it’s okay to just chat and hang out in the library?? In the middle of exams seasons?? And it’s a tiny asf library like girl can you just hang somewhere else that’s not here? The worst part is that they’re from a year below me and they aren’t even supposed to be in my section of the library so conclusion why are some people so inconsiderate god help me
Why does no one ever comment on the inherent sadness that is present whenever one packs one’s luggage - whether to move house, fly abroad, or even just on one’s way to a leisure trip? There is a sense of sentimentality in saying farewell to a place that had been your home, whether for weeks, months, even years - by packing up belongings, one tries to salvage as many pieces as one could, to retain a sense of home. Yet one could never really replace home, for home is not objects, nor is it really a location, an apartment, a house. It is a feeling - an attachment to old things, new things, borrowed things. And packing one’s luggage is the final act of acknowledging one’s departure.
if you read in a frog paper “specimen was released in the field immediately after capture” chances are very good that what it actually means is
“i dropped the damn frog and despite the fact that we fell all over each other no one could recapture it”
sometimes when i am sad i go read through the tags on this post, because they are 70% other biologists saying things like “AND ALSO FUCK FIELD MICE” and “THAT CRAB ALMOST BROKE MY FINGER” and I am reassured that I am not the only one who has bobbled a wood frog right into their cleavage.
plus six or seven people who just….can’t figure out what a frog paper could possibly be. (guys it’s…a scientific paper. about frogs.)
and this one
which made me laugh despairingly because i mean
bro you don’t even know.
what is the code entomologists use for “i stepped on it, i’m so sorry, it was dark out and the specimen was very small”
“Impromptu dissection was performed under less-than-optimal lighting conditions.”
‘impromptu dissection’ is an alarming phrase in any context and i thank you for it
What’s biologist for “the little fucker BIT me and I yote it into the undergrowth on reflex”?
“Specimen was removed from the study pool due to abnormal interaction responses”
I am reblogging this 98% for the second to last comment holy shit I’m fucking choking
I’m enjoying the tags/replies discussing the proper conjugation of “to yeet.” I am in favor of the decision that the future perfect is “will have yitten.”
Expanding this, NASA has a few gems from their report language:
“Underwent unplanned rapid disassembly” – it exploded, and it wasn’t an explosion we wanted to happen
“Lithobraking maneuver” – it stopped because it hit the goddamned ground.
“Engine-rich exhaust” – the engine bell melted or evaporated, or the engine ejected itself out the back of the rocket without having a very good reason to do so.
“Fishing orbit” – the craft is in the ocean instead of space and we didn’t mean to put it there
“Thrust was observed along an undesired vector” – the engine leaked and the rocket spun off into oblivion.
“Wearing his manager hat” – a moron who shouldn’t be an engineer (a reference to the infamous quote “take off your engineer hat and put on your manager hat” in the meeting in which the Challenger was cleared for launch)
You assign university work to the university student? You assign university work to the university student at university? Jail for professors! Jail for professors for one thousand years!
ii. A jock who looks like they Do Not Belong but is somehow better than everyone else?
iii. Royals, most likely English. Need to know something about Queen Victoria? They have it covered, probably have a powerpoint ready
iv. Has read every single history book there is to read. Ready to fight all the professors with their strangely extensive knowledge on Literally Everything
v. Has read no books but is still ready to fight the professors on everything, half the class facepalms when they raise their hand
vi. Obsessed with latin and the classics, finds a way to make some connection to Ancient Rome even when talking about World War I
vii. Studies The Gays™ , ready to mention one whenever a topic comes even close to one
viii. Knows all the dates but can not remember names for the life of them
ix. Knows all the names but can not remember dates even if their life depended on it
x. That person who is just a little too into Machiavelli
xi. Already knows exactly what event/person they want to research for the rest of their life, has absolutely no interest in courses that don’t relate to that topic
xii. Could not care less about practical topics, only interested in things like pirates and witchcraft
xiii. Didn’t know what they wanted to do with life and picked history because “it gives you the tools for many different things”
xiv. “We should all just be communists” and “Marx seriously had some good ideas”
xv. Does archery, medieval sword fighting and medieval fairs in their free time, super crafty but can also actually kill you
