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I get a minion (summer student) today. I'm not sure what to do with him. I lost my previous minion.
Any suggestions?
posted by Aislinn Sirk @ 8:56 AM
20 Comments:
Does your house need dusted?
He can rinse all your glassware, clean the benchtops thoroughly every day, fetch stuff from other buildings, and if he's cute maybe rub your feet.
My lab is quite dusty now that you mention it.
Update: 2 new Masters students just showed up today and they are going to want equipment. We don't have enough equipment as is.
Ahhhhhhhh!
I had a new trainee starting today and she only made 1 1/2 hr. She made it through a staff meeting and a few q&a. So, I'm back blogging now that I can't train. Maybe you should try to run your away too. LOL!
Sonya, what do you do that is so arduous that your trainees only last an hour and a half?
Bob, your minion can clean my house. Or he can fetch you food.
OMG, I just met my minion.
This is going to be a very, very long summer.
In summary, my conversations with the student.
"No, you do not negotiate your hours with the professor. You arrange them with me"
"No, you cannot start at noon and work till 8:00 because I don't want to commit to working till 8:00 all summer"
"No, you cannot work in the lab alone"
"No, Raman and nmr are actually two very, very different techniques"
"It's great you know what a refractive index is. However, I asked you what you know about electrochemistry"
So, you may be sending him out for food a lot, then?
(I sent you an email)
Regardin last year's minion, did you check under the desk?
Ha-I got a minion of em.
Be afraid. Be very very afraid.
He wants to work in the lab alone? *gigglesnort*
I wish I had a minion. I never get a minion. I did, however, get to move back into the office that I left four months ago --- and I had to negotiate (plead) for that.
Can your minion bring food to me?
HD, you really do not want this minion. Ignorance is OK. I have got decent research out of grade 6 students that visit me. Ignorance with a great big heaping pile of scientific globbedy-gook words piled on top and an inability to say "I don't know" is just too much.
SS-ha ha ha ha
Tell he/she to clean the hydrochloric acid and walk away. See how long it takes for him/her to come back asking how to do that.
'Legacy' minions, who are related to Somebody Above You, are the most useless helpers around. Every one of them is total dilletante. If your minion is one of these try to spin it off on some other unsuspecting researcher.
Maybe I'll send him to get left handed wrenches.
Or photocopy papers
Or something.
Poutine. It has to take him a few days to find poutine in Boston.
Or! Send him bra shopping.
I want minions! No fair. :(
Are minions only available at eyebrow raising schools?
Nutz, no, I had minions at my previous school. Very good, very nice, clever minions.
You can have this minion. I have a large box and a spare minion. Just send me your address.
Just bring him with you when you come here. I am sure the blackflies would like him.
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