Panic stations

I'm starting to panic. Being a science student, I have recently received a number of emails advertising some very attractive PhDs, and in just my area as well. Being a writer, I have received precisely zero invitations to be paid for writing.

Maybe I should conform to the laws of thermodynamics and just remain in the lower energy state, thus remain a student for four more years.

I guess it couldn't hurt to apply...

Besides the threat of further education, I have kept myself occupied by developing a habit for dressing up for lab every day. Scrap that, not for lab, for the precious minutes in between lab sessions when I actually have human contact. Unfortunately, the only people who have thus far noticed have been other scientists. Appreciated, of course, but objective comments from those outside the concrete walls of the physics department are what are really sought, and have been in short supply.

Damn those art students who manage to achieve aesthetic perfection so effortlessly.