Staying late

Staying late in the lab is part of the game sometimes. I just got out of the lab today at 8:30 PM, working since 10:00 AM. So if you don’t love what you are doing, it’s hard to do. Although it’s hard for me to get out of bed in the mornings, I love going into work and doing something that no one else is doing. I work with certain biological processes that hopefully are not being studied by someone else. We do this to write papers, get grant money, and do it all over again. We’re always trying to further our knowledge of our world around us, and I like to think I’m helping in the smallest way possible. But those smallest ways lead to the medicines that save people or make their lives better in some way.
 

So, all in all, staying late is well worth it.