1. You often wish there were more than 24 hours in a day.
You are awake for 21 hours out of the 24, and you are actually doing work or in class the whole time. You often forget if you even ate lunch. What is sleep again?
2. You are baffled by the fact that people actually have time to watch TV, Netflix, or even the news.
People talk about the newest TV series, and you haven't even heard of it yet. You forget what was happening in that show you were watching over the summer, so you'll probably have to start over during winter break (while you're not working on that grad school application). You don't even know what's going on in the world besides what you see on Facebook or Twitter while you're walking to class.
3. It is a normal thing for you to spend 5 hours in the lab when the schedule says you'll be out of lab in 3 hours.
You spend 1 hour on the pre-lab questions the night before, and then you get to lab and realize what was said in three steps on the outline will actually take all day. It is expected that you stay late after lab, and you often miss meals because of lab. Then you have to spend about 4 hours doing statistics for each lab and writing the lab report (for multiple lab classes a week).
4. You spend hours at a time in your professors' offices on a normal basis.
They know you better than you know yourself sometimes. You don't know if it is possible to pass a class without going to office hours. You regularly sit in their offices to do homework and ask endless questions.
5. You get irritated when you have to spend time on classes other than science.
You're constantly thinking "I could be using this time to do practice problems or take a practice test or write a lab report or try to understand what even happened in class today."
6. The only sun you get is the sun that shines through the window in the lab.
Even in the summer you didn't have a tan because you were either working in a lab or doing summer research.
7. You get anxiety when you eat after lab because you could still have remnants of neurotoxin on your hands, and it may kill you.
You are constantly worried that you have chemicals, some formaldehyde, or bacteria on your hands, and if you touch food, it will make you sick. You wash your hands about 100 times before you eat.
8. You actually laugh at science jokes... because you think they're funny.
*Hits funny bone*- That was humerus.
What do you do with a dead chemist? You barium.
Wanna hear a potassium joke? K.
9. Boys/girls actually use nerdy pickup lines on you.. and it works.
I got my ion you.
Do you have 11 protons? Because you're sodium fine.
I wish I were adenine, so I could be paired with U.
10. Goggle marks. All day, every day.
You often have to explain the big red mark in the middle of your forehead where your goggles rest. You carry your goggles around as an unspoken explanation for those who may be thinking about asking.
11. You complain about the work load, but you actually love your major.
It may be hard work and require endless hours of your time and energy, but it will all be worth it when you're living your dream!
