Laboratory Sociology 101
Feb. 4th, 2004 11:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quesarahLab personnel can be roughly divided into the following groups:
1. Rocking hipsters. Jeans, sneakers, and microbeers. For them, scientific curiosity is often part of a larger creative impulse, and their geekiness and zest for learning can be charming. Or annoying, if it's late and they have the Deftones cranked up too loud on the stereo.
2. Mellow intellectuals. Fond of Eddie Bauer khakis, lite rock (or NPR), and white wine. Can generally be described in terms of discipline and attention to details. They like to drive their points home with large sample sizes and statistical data. This translates into ass-kickingly solid work, but amazingly dull research presentations.
3. Schlepprocks. Hopeless nerds. Often found with toilet paper stuck to their shoes.
Occasionally, Rocking Hipsters grow into Mellow Intellectuals but the reverse is rarely true. (Unless a midlife crisis is in process, which generally goes hand-in-hand with loss of funding, hair, spouse, etc). Schlepprocks always remain schlepprocks.
1. Rocking hipsters. Jeans, sneakers, and microbeers. For them, scientific curiosity is often part of a larger creative impulse, and their geekiness and zest for learning can be charming. Or annoying, if it's late and they have the Deftones cranked up too loud on the stereo.
2. Mellow intellectuals. Fond of Eddie Bauer khakis, lite rock (or NPR), and white wine. Can generally be described in terms of discipline and attention to details. They like to drive their points home with large sample sizes and statistical data. This translates into ass-kickingly solid work, but amazingly dull research presentations.
3. Schlepprocks. Hopeless nerds. Often found with toilet paper stuck to their shoes.
Occasionally, Rocking Hipsters grow into Mellow Intellectuals but the reverse is rarely true. (Unless a midlife crisis is in process, which generally goes hand-in-hand with loss of funding, hair, spouse, etc). Schlepprocks always remain schlepprocks.
