Why is it..
the majority of labs are windowless!? I have just submitted my PhD, today (woo yay!), and had/have an office with no windows, a truly inspirational work environment ;)

Similar to you I also use a machine to do mind numbing work and have luckily not been caught pretending to be a robot (and making the whirr, click sounds) whilst loading samples :O
(Studentken is looking for motivation on, Fri 4 Jun 2010, 12:10, 1 reply)

Our windowless lab* is the laser room, which is quite good for not getting caught being silly because if anyone's coming in, they first have to type a code into the keypad to temporarily override the safety systems. In other words, you get plenty of warning in the shape of a pretty loud series of beeps if someone's about to come in. You'd have to have the iPod cranked up pretty high not to hear it.

The other parts of our lab all have windows, incidentally.


* well, I say "our" even though I've all but quit my PhD, never mind...
(julius, Sat 5 Jun 2010, 13:35, closed)