Mary Arrastia

Not a wordle, just my PhD thesis committee’s availability ⬛️⬛️🟩⬛️⬛️ ⬛️⬛️⬛️🟩⬛️ ⬛️🟩⬛️⬛️🟩 🟩⬛️⬛️⬛️🟩 🟩⬛️⬛️🟩⬛️ ⬛️🟩🟩⬛️🟩

The food toppings were added as part of the reviewers’ comments 😆 – at Mountain View, CA

Dear Disney, I love Baymax and your merch, but I'm very much questioning this...

Stanford football may be losing, but it was super cool to see them honor Carolyn Bertozzi for her Nobel Prize at the game live 😀

Is guilt in academia a common thing? Basically, are you feeling like you’re trying fulfill a certain career role because others expect you to be that person or you feel like you owe it back to someone? How does one navigate around this? 😖 #AcademicTwitter

Is this a Halloween-exclusive setting?

When you think you’re being useful

When you accidentally centrifuge live mammalian cells at 3000g instead of 300g

It’s official, this IS the bad place

Stanford confirmed to be the CpG island for In-N-Out

Today is devastating day. I’m sad, I’m pissed, I’m frustrated. This is perhaps one of the biggest FUs to women’s rights. After all the progress made so far, we are now taking more than 2 steps back in advancing women’s rights. I’m scared for what’s next.

This is LITERALLY me

I love science and academia and the environment it provides. But seeing this poster today made me question a lot. How is it that I have a PhD but in a position that pays less than a general manager in the Bay Area? Thinking about this shit hurts. Does it actually get better?

I wish I had a PCR unit like the one in Lightyear. The PCR unit I have in lab just makes me sad and doesn’t meow.

Today is one of those days where I'm scrutinizing a bunch of As, Cs, Ts, and Gs, and I'm somehow being paid for doing that

Today in feeling old-- Undergrad who's here for the summer: "Is this a stereo?" Me: "Nope, that's an electric pencil sharpener."

Didn't go wild before my PhD, but during. This was during my 3rd year of my PhD program. Dyed my ponytail red with a gradient going towards orange (thanks @cycl0pentadiene for your help in dying my hair!)