Lab choice advice

"I want to join a lab where I'm a f*cking moron, so I can learn from everyone"
"It always help to have a colleague in the same phase of career as you are, so you can bounce ideas off each other"
"You're here to train to think, it doesn't matter what you work on. You won't work on it in your postdoc or in your own lab anyway"
"Productivity is kind of important as a graduate student. Go to a lab where you're productive" -Josh
"Don't feel like you can only do what (PI) tells you to, do that as a hobby" -Patrick
"If you join you'll see lots of pictures of a crazy French woman and her fat baby" -Nat
"If you have problems with people in the lab, you'll just be miserable day to day. If you have problems with the PI, you might not get your PhD" -Ben

Being in that lab for 30min reminded me of how awesome those people are. And of course Salma took the chance to harass my ass

"Expts often fail the first time. Don't take it on yourself"
"This is not like in situs where u know what to expect. It's real science"
"Join the lab where u're most interested in the science. It's what keeps u going ultimately"