Working hard or hardly working

I'm surrounded by douchebags. Seriously, graduate students are some of the most annoying creatures on the planet. That is other graduate students than myself; specifically those involved in the molecular biologies. Faculty and post-docs are just fine; technicians and other assorted scientists are no bother, but i find that i want to gouge my ears out when i talk with most other graduate students. Everytime i talk to them, its the same. They must tell me how excruciatingly hard they are working. "I worked until 3am today; i ran 300 gels yesterday; i did 450 meaningless bullshit experiments this morning." They wear it like a badge of honor that says "because i say i work hard, i must be a real scientist and deserve to be here." I even overheard one girl complaining about taking classes because she cant wait until they're done so she can "spend more time at the bench" (nerd scientist terminology for running experiments). First of all, you want classes to be over because you want to do less fucking work and not have to study. Second, if you have to BRAG about how hard you are working, then you probably arent working very hard at all. After a rough day of actually doing work, the last thing i do when i'm away from it is want to revisit the gory details. If work = hard and free-time = fun, the last thing i want to do is make my fun free time= talk about work which = i suck. Secondly, why the fuck does anyone have to work until 3am? That just tells me you are inefficient at what you do. And by bragging about the hours you log, you're basically telling me you are a crappy scientist that doesnt really know how to do your job.

If you're a grad student and want to brag to your boss about how much effort you are putting in, more power to you. But i dont know your boss and i'm not gonna pass along the information so spare me the bullshit details on how you waste your life. So i'll work at my own pace and be home by 6 and talk about my fucking dog during my free-time and lets see who gets their PhD first and who's a much more interesting person and better scientist. Because i'm pretty sure its gonna be me. Douche-bags.