I'm a fifth-year graduate student in chemistry at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. I'll be taking my Ph.D. in a couple of months. As a graduate student, I primarily do research in the lab. I'm happy doing what I'm doing. Goes and comes.
Some days are better than others.
Other end of the spectrum. I have days on which I really wonder what I'm doing in my career. View Results Doing research in the lab involves many types of skills. We make compounds and characterize them, keep the instruments in our lab working, have to become proficient at any number of computer programs and analysis software, as well as keep up with scientific literature. It's quite exhausting at times, but I've never regretted going to graduate school.