(To be chanted by the youngest member present, while tearing her hair out)

Why is this Mike different from all other lab members? 

All other lab members will reorder agarose when we run out.  

Why can't Mike? 

preps  

Why is this plasmid prep different from all other plasmid preps?  

I followed the exact same protocol each time.  So why didn't this one work? 

Why is my paper so much worse than the papers that actually got into PNAS?  They seem about the same to me. 

What must I do to graduate?


haggadah Section: -- Four Questions
Source: A Graduate Student Haggadah