33 Reasons to Join Our Lab
- Our lab has 17 Papers in Nature (four others in press). 
- Our lab is currently funded by two NIH grants and three crappy little NSF grants. 
- Our lab partners with the private sector. 
- Our lab has alumni organizations in Los Angeles, New York City, London, and Boston. 
- Our lab had 11 post-docs last year. 14 of them got tenure-track jobs. 
- Our lab does strategic planning retreats. 
- Our lab has a growler refilling station. 
- All the students in our lab do New York Times op-eds as first-year projects. 
- Our lab maintains a database of job offers we’ve turned down. 
- Our lab is seeking an angel investor. 
- Our lab already tested that. 
- Our lab has a Michelin star. 
- Did you ever slow down and really think about how such a thing could ever evolve? Our lab did. 
- Our lab installed whiteboards on the outside of the building. 
- Two years ago, our lab director got one MacArthur genius grant for his research and another to fix the nonprofit sector. 
- Our lab was featured on Anthony Bordain: No Reservations. 
- Our lab is a member of the National Academy. 
- Our lab director has an amazing TED talk titled “Can attractive CVs change the world?” 
- Our lab has its own Battle of the Bands. 
- Tom Wolfe is writing a hit piece about our lab. 
- Our lab has a condiments station. 
- When our lab goes to scientific conferences, somebody stays behind as a designated survivor. 
- I have a Science Review paper coming out on our lab’s Nature papers. 
- Our lab has a Tesla recharging station. 
- This second-year dude in our lab used data from Google Scholar and Spotify to prove we’re in the same cultural clade as Charles Darwin, Marvin Minsky, and Bowie. 
- Our lab director has no qualms about dialing it in. 
- What did you think of Ethan Hawke’s performance in the biopic about our lab? 
- Our lab knows a shoe can be both stylish and comfortable. 
- September through May, our lab hosts a “Second Saturdays” arts and culture event. 
- As soon as our lab gets back from winter break, we’re going to disrupt six different research areas. 
- This American Life’s is doing their next live event from our lab’s journal club. 
- Our lab is a hub for Spirit Airlines. 
- Our lab didn’t even bother to test that: It’s axiomatic. 
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