We all know that:Money is not everything, but there is no moneyYetIt can't.
Science and engineering students, especially graduate students majoring in biochemical environmental materials, medicine, agriculture and other majors, have no funds, which means that there is no equipment, no reagents and other necessary items, and it is difficult to do experiments and engage in scientific research.
Wouldn't there be no scientific research if there was no funding?I won't publish itDon't want to graduate?
Of course it can't be!
You have to believe that the wisdom of the masses is endless, and countless graduate students have personally explored a variety of methods and means to deal with the shortage of funds, which can be divided into about 15 types, and latecomers can refer to them!
The bold type
The laboratory lacks funds and cannot carry out scientific research normally, who is the first person responsible?
The answer is self-explanatory:Mentors, of course.
Therefore, some bold graduate students want to directly PUA tutor "open source", the specific form, of course, is to let him write projects and apply for more funds!
To borrow the most popular words of encouragement nowadays:"Find out more about your own reasonsLaboratoryThere was not much funding for scientific research in these yearsYouDid you write the project seriously?”
Of course, if you meet a strong mentor, using this method is tantamount to "hitting a stone with an egg", use it with caution, use it with caution!
Self-reliant
There are no guns, no cannons, the enemy makes them for us".
No, for graduate students"There is no this, there is no that, we make it ourselves!".”
amp – with your own.
LB - self-matching.
Competent - self-matching.
Electrophoresis gel - self-matching.
sds-page - with your own.
Buffer – Prepare your own.
The pipette head is self-loaded, self-packed, and self-extinguished.
Sacrifice for righteousness
According to reports, a graduate student in a university laboratory could not afford animal blood for experiments, so he had no choice but to draw his own blood for experiments.
In addition, I have to go to the vegetable market and pick up some discarded leaves from the vendors to feed the animals in the laboratory.
This kind of spirit of sacrificing one's life for the sake of scientific research and putting down one's body is worth carrying forward
Improvised
Wash and sterilize the centrifuge tube after use, and then use!
Wash and sterilize the Petri dish after use, and then use!
Shake the kit when it expires, and use it again!
Run the DNA glue and add ethidium bromide to stir well, and then use!
Pick up the used and discarded cans of medicine from other groups, shake them violently with water, pour out the solution, transfer it to the oven to dry, and then experiment with the recollected medicines.
In the words of the graduate student:I now understand why someone ran out of yogurt, pour water into it, shake the yogurt bottle and drink it again. There's a lot left of itWhat's that!」
Insteadtype
In a laboratory, the boss is very poor and recruits people like crazy, and he doesn't even have the money to buy mouse bedding!
Under the wise advice of the boss, the graduate students used to be padded with newspapers or cotton wool, but they were easy to make a mess and smelly, and they were kept in the laboratory, you all know.
In order to be able to graduate and to be healthy, the graduate student gritted his teeth and was ruthless, and carried an axe to a remote place in the corner of the school in the middle of the night, in situCut down a small tree overnightPlanerThe sawdust is then driedSo smoothly posted articles to graduate.
The school later reported the incident, but because the corner was too remote and there was no monitoring, it was finally closed. Graduate students can have this kind of determination, ruthlessness, hands-on ability and anti-investigation ability, and they deserve to graduate!
Brave and fearless
The two labs work together, and one graduate student uses the other lab's large instruments.
But who knew that ** had just done it halfway, the boss and the other party had a falling out, and the key to the large instrument laboratory was taken away.
In desperation, the graduate student waited until the other party got off work every dayClimb in from outside the window of the lab next door, every dayAll nightDo the experiment, and then return to the original state at dawn and turn it back again.
Because the laboratory is on the fifth floor, in order to prevent accidentally falling downstairs and dying, he also went to buy a set of safety ropes, which is simply a modern versionChisel into the wall to steal the lightAhh
Save moneytype
The laboratory had just been established and was almost from scratch, and a graduate student took the following countermeasures:
First of all,borrowed more than 1,000 yuan to build a refrigerator;
And thenStart making someIt's very specialNo money is neededFor experiments, such as: strain isolation and the like, boil the medium with potatoes, the potatoes are your own, and the petri dish is made of glass left over from others before (others have changed to disposable ones, and no one uses the glass);
Again,If there is a public instrument, use the public one, and if there is no one, rub other people's, because it is often not the turn of the ultra-clean table, so I simply bought a UV lamp of more than 70 yuan to make do.
Finally,After a long time, the commonly used small instruments and cheap consumables have been saved, and then they have applied for the project by themselves, and the small funds of the leaders can also be rubbed from time to time, and the days are finally normal.
Mutual benefittype
Method:oneGo to other research groups or universities to borrow equipment and excess reagent consumables. It is more accurate to say "begging" than to borrow.
Method 2:Send a common newsletter, go to other research groups or universities to find cooperation, and take part of their expenses reimbursement, which is about the same as the other party's money to buy a corresponding author.
Apply what you have learned
A classmate asked her supervisor for scientific research funds, and the supervisor was obviously short of funds, so she began to think bittersweetly
"You young people nowadays, you have a lot of money to do scientific research. I think back when I was studyingWait, what if you don't have money to buy mice?I thought of a way, climbed over the wall in the middle of the night to the animal room, and stole itoneMaleoneFemale a pair of rats, let them mate and breed ...... on their own”
The teacher's words are not a fool's thoughts, but a lesson from the past, that is, Morgan.
Waste utilization type
The laboratory had just been established, and the boss had just returned from a PhD abroad, and the school had not given any funds. The laboratory only has an optical platform, a spectrometer, and a narrow linewidth laser, and there is no money to buy other materials.
So, the graduate student decided to do **, but the lab didn't even have servers and computers. At first, everyone used their own computers, and later I learned thatThe school has a batch of scrapped computersAnd soGo to the warehouse and pick and pick
There are several of them, one for each person, and two as servers for everyone to use remotely, and then, the computers are equipped with pirated software to continue to do the best work.
In this way, everyone relied on **sent a few articles**, and successfully supported them until graduation.
Wild wool type
Method:oneThe trial consumables sold are all in one round. More philately, go ask others for other sales*** try to get enough free consumables.
After a period of time, you can change the sales to hit the past and continue to collect wool.
Method 2:Don't buy expensive instruments first, after understanding what company's instruments are good, contact the company's sales. Say that the laboratory has a project that plans to purchase your machine, but this ** needs to be discussed, and it is necessary to test whether the machine meets the requirements.
Generally speaking, these companies will give you a time, and then let you try it, and then just use it or not.
Method 3:Many schools will give a subsidy of 30,000 yuan to recruit undergraduates, so the group must accept a large number of undergraduates to eat this subsidy.
In order to ensure that all these undergraduates can pass, when they write **, you have to pick up some leftovers from the things made by master's students or doctoral students and give them them (the practice seems to be a little unauthentic, but it is the case).
MadnessHug your thighstype
A graduate student wanted to go abroad to attend an academic conference and travel by the way, but he had no choice but to find a way to be self-sufficient, so he went to "hug his thighs".
I applied for an open-source journal and told my supervisor only after I was accepted.
The conference registration fee paid before, I originally thought that the funds were tight, so I would not be reimbursed, but I didn't expect the tutor to urge me to report!
Thigh Tutor Summary:No matter how hard you are, you can't be a student, and no matter how poor you are, you can't be poor in scientific research
When you meet such a rich and good mentor, you have to support your project by smashing pots and selling iron, I have to say, you are really lucky!
Self-abandoning type
Scientific research is closely related to financial, mental and physical strength.
If there is a lack of financial resources and a shortage of funds, you can only invest more mental and physical energy.
Think more creatively, use more efficient methods, which is to increase mental investment.
Spending more time and staying up more nights is an increase in physical commitment.
So my choice is:Abandon**.
What's more, since giving up**, I have found that my spirit is much better.
The ultimate sober type
I remembered a quote from my junior brother:
No money?What kind of scientific research do you have if you don't have money!
Of course, the above countermeasures are all helpless!
I believe that many laboratory conditions are still good, since the objective conditions are available, it is more important to engage in scientific research and produce results by everyone's own subjective efforts.
Finally, I wish you all a happy scientific research and a successful graduation!