1. you start to find out the switches in the lab building. i.e. where to turn on/off the lights for the entire level of the building so you dont have to grope your way to the lab, and where to turn on/off the lights IN the lab so you can see the rats (or cells) all the better.

2. you start to smile and say hi to the other fellow honours students from other labs, which share the same floor as your lab. next you start to exchange names and contacts. then you start to smile and say hi to the other fellow honours students from other labs that are from OTHER floors.

3. you enter the lecture late. not because you woke up late. but because you have hundreds of experiments to run between 7am-10am.

4. you skipped meals. because (a) the time of the meal is the time of the experiment; (b) in the timespan of a meal, you can complete hundred experiments; (c) your mentor asked you to do somethings and assumed 你是仙女

5. you become fairer and fairer. after all, you left your house and make your way to school before the sun is up and you left the lab and make your way home after the sun is down.

6. you asked for lab access in the weekends, or 24/7 access.

7. coffee is the elixir for success in experiments. no coffee, all goofy.