Weighing Memes

Fresh out of college with a shiny degree, and there you are—pipetting samples and calibrating scales for the ten-thousandth time. The eternal lab tech purgatory where your four years of advanced education prepared you for... checking if things weigh what they're supposed to weigh. The crushing reality that your grand scientific career currently involves being a human scale with a fancy diploma. Somewhere in the distance, your thesis advisor is laughing.