
{"id":2927,"date":"2019-06-13T12:25:55","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T12:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/what-does-a-phd-students-desk-look-like\/"},"modified":"2025-04-05T14:11:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T14:11:01","slug":"what-does-a-phd-students-desk-look-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/what-does-a-phd-students-desk-look-like","title":{"rendered":"What does a PhD student&#8217;s desk look like?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">Frey Fyfe, a creature native to the coasts of East Devon, and previously misidentified as a Greater Horseshoe Bat, is here described as a subspecies of\u00a0<i>Vulcanoptera minor,\u00a0<\/i>the Lesser Spotted Volcanologist. While mostly active at night, the Frey can sometimes be seen emerging from their roost in time for mid-morning tea and coffee, and will spend most of the daytime flitting between their desk and sources of sugary snacks, which make up about 20% of their diet. The Frey is also occasionally spotted in laboratory environments, accompanied by the sounds of horror podcasts and of crushing\u00a0<i>bones<\/i>\u00a0pumice. This is where their distinctive call of \u201cwhy is my resin not setting?\u201d can also be heard. Over the last two years, keen-eyed spotters have determined that this call is to attract other volcanologists to the lab to help in getting chemical analyses of crystals, without which the Frey would not be ready for their winter hibernation. As the days start to get warmer, the Frey will unfurl their blankets and engage in behaviors such as tending to houseplants, baking bread, and chopping down trees in the Oxfordshire countryside. While the Frey usually only migrates between Oxford and London, one researcher in March 2016 reported an atypical migration to the volcanoes of Central Mexico, whereupon the Frey appeared to subsist on a diet of corn, meat, and crickets.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-width: 3px; border-style: solid;\" title=\"Default Title Text\" src=\"http:\/\/insights.cactusglobal.com\/sites\/default\/files\/What%20does%20a%20PhD%20student%E2%80%99s%20desk%20look%20like%20image%201_0.png\" alt=\"Default Alt text\" data-file_info=\"%7B%22fid%22:%228683%22,%22view_mode%22:%22default%22,%22fields%22:%7B%22format%22:%22default%22,%22field_file_image_alt_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22Default%20Alt%20text%22,%22field_file_image_title_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22Default%20Title%20Text%22,%22field_image_tags%5Bund%5D%5Btextfield%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_image_tags%5Bund%5D%5Bvalue_field%5D%22:%22%5C%22%5C%22%5C%22%5C%22%22%7D,%22type%22:%22media%22%7D\" \/><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"tab-stops: list .5in;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">Books and folders full of papers and relevant lecture notes from my juvenile stage as an undergrad. Not pictured is a seed tray that I will use to grow various herbs when spring gets going.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"tab-stops: list .5in;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">Lemsip, just in case. Also, a box of stroopwafels, the ultimate 3 pm tea-snack.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"tab-stops: list .5in;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">A blank wall to stare at.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"tab-stops: list .5in;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">Follow me on Twitter @frey_fyfe for occasional pictures of bees.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"tab-stops: list .5in;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">The third floor plants. I think that\u2019s a Begonia I can see through my little sunlit corner.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"tab-stops: list .5in;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">My shelf of many things, including a \u201cWhat on Earth?\u201d wall-book, panda and alpaca plushies, a Mexican Molcajete (a pestle hewn from lava for making guacamole), skin cream, Lego geologists, a 3D-printed volcano, and some thin sections.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"tab-stops: list .5in;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">Deer Mug no. 1 and a collection of fancy tea. Current favourite is cinnamon and rose.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"tab-stops: list .5in;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">My coat, hiding a number of sins, including a box of miscellaneous rocks and a 2-year-old carton of apple juice that, at this point, I am too scared to open.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"tab-stops: list .5in;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">A crumpled poster that\u2019s been collecting dust and wrinkles for about a year.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"tab-stops: list .5in;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">Deer Mug no. 2, two computer mice, a postcard, a plastic cup, three pence, and some rainbow highlighters for when you want to make a paper printout really pop.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"tab-stops: list .5in;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">Notes from a Friday seminar and a paper.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"tab-stops: list .5in;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">Under here is a mysterious collection of cardboard boxes, trash, and a couple of bags of samples that never made it to the lab.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"tab-stops: list .5in;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">My Mexican mug full of stationery, a nice motivational postcard from a friend, a book on identifying minerals, and my sun lamp for blinding away the winter blues.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"tab-stops: list .5in;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">Lab books, papers, and a copy of \u2018Elements\u2019 magazine that I nicked from the second floor. These cover a set of drawers containing, among other things, an old outreach t-shirt, a face mask, and a vial of indium metal.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"tab-stops: list .5in;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">I think this is a lacrosse net? It\u2019s not mine, I don\u2019t do sports.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"tab-stops: list .5in;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">A motivational volcano comic, a nice postcard from the undergrad who I supervised over the summer, and a 2017 Kliban cat calendar I haven\u2019t yet replaced.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i>This story was published on August 9, 2018, on the blog <\/i><a style=\"color: blue; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/evidentlyscientifical.wordpress.com\/\"><i>Evidently Scientifical<\/i><\/a><i> (available <\/i><a style=\"color: blue; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/evidentlyscientifical.wordpress.com\/2018\/08\/09\/the-anatomy-of-a-grad-students-desk-frey\/\"><i>here<\/i><\/a><i>) and has been republished here with permission.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frey Fyfe, a creature native to the coasts of East Devon, and previously misidentified as a Greater Horseshoe Bat, is here described as a subspecies of\u00a0Vulcanoptera minor,\u00a0the Lesser Spotted Volcanologist. 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