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A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.

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This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
I am in 1st year of college, I don't drink, and I am failing.
Heavy drinking is considered irresponsible through your bachelor's. After that it's considered "networking" and "building professional relationships". With the implicit usage as a coping mechanism
Not just in academia. This is true for corporate life. There are happy hours left and right which are as much networking as they are excuses to have someone else buy you drinks
If youāre not joking, reach out to your collegeās academic support/tutoring centers. Theyāre literally paid to be there and help you with your classes. Even if you understand all the class content already they can still help you with whatever youāre struggling with, like figuring out how much time a project needs or how to get it started/organized.
I struggled my first go āround in college 20 years ago and wish Iād known that, now that Iām going back Iāve been using the support systems the college has a lot more and itās been paying off.
Reminds me of this very old college meme (but it checks out):
Well you gotta do what you gotta do