Lab Quotes

Best if taken completely out of context, of course.

It happened in during a lab meeting in spring of 2020...we had just gone completely virtual due to the pandemic. I remember being zoned out from the conversation when, suddenly, I heard my mentor, Dr. Emily Sandoz, blurt out: "You never learned your fucking animals!"

And in that moment, I was so thankful that my microphone was muted because I laughed so hard that I was pretty much snorting.

The best part? To this day, I can't remember the context of the comment. I think it's funnier that way. So, I started documenting those kinds of moments - the moments that, if taken out of context, would leave anyone confused and (hopefully) amused. I began making an active list of my favorite things that labbies have said both in their out loud voices and through text via Zoom chat, email, etc.

Below is a list of some of my favorites. I've eagerly shared these with other labbies, encouraging them to notice those small, amusing moments as well. I've also shared them here for folks who really need a laugh or who were just curious enough to make it this far. I hope you enjoy these as much as I do.

-Abbey 

• "You never learned your fucking animals!" - Em

• "I can see the stupid" - Eva

• "The physiological ouchies" - Eva

• "My high this week is that I had a mental breakdown in front of Emily" - Morgan

• "Mindfulnessing" - Eva

• "You’re just context, bro" - Em

• "CAAATTTTT" - Janani

• "Petitfours are straight gas" - Easton

• "Everyone is an anarchist until it’s time to schedule classes" - Owen

• "Please refer to me with potato-themed language, 
there are no firm rules" - Hunter

• "I didn’t cause it; I cannot control it; I cannot cure it" - LaGriff

• "Back on that work sauce" - Em

• "Movie Idea: My Big Fat Appetitive Response Class" - TJ

• "Clusterfuckery" - Janani

• "I didn’t want to leave y’all to flail. Not that I don’t think y’all wouldn’t flail meaningfully" - Em

• "Sometimes, you get to be the behaving organism" - Em

• "Reinforce that shit" - Em

• "Nobody taught me India wasn’t in South America either… salty" - Thomas 

• "Dad behavior considers burning leaves to be very useful" - Jade

• "If the Ant Limit is passed, never pass the Frog Limit ™" - Hunter

• "I only respond to LinkedIn messages" - Eva

• "I do really well with aggressive encouragement. Like you should probably cuss me out" - Abbey

• "✨No thoughts, head empty - Kantor✨" - Brad

• "I’m gonna need some guinea pigs…" - Clint

• "Y’all know how much I hate bragging, but I do make killer banana bread" - Thomas

• "Omg scorpions are super cute" - Michael 

• "DONT PUT ME ON EXTINCTION" - Eva

• "I’m really good at word processing… like Microsoft should hire me" - Bekka 

• "There are never enough words" - Eva

• "We are all floating in the same soup" - Em

• "DOG IN LAB DOG IN LAB" - Matt A

• "Is it even practicum if one does not breakdown and cry at least once (a week) during that experience?" - Janani

• "Things to fit into my schedule: Cry" - Abbey

• "You can’t just throw snakes at people" - Em

• "If I sound a little preachy it’s because I failed out of seminary school. I’m just kidding, that’s not true at all" - Michael

• "Hear me out… a sink that closes" - Abbey

• "Motto for the day, y’all: don’t stop make it pop" - Thomas

• "I planted some herbs, that was nice" - Michael

• "Abbey's thesis team is gonna be like the 96' bulls, don't miss out y'all" - Thomas 

• "Shit, context?" - Josh

• "I've had enough caffeine today to kill a small horse" - Thomas

• "I think time is only conceptual… not to create any existential angst or anything" - Em

• "In 1998, I was still straight" - Michael

• "I should just go lie down" - Janani

• "I have so many things to do so urgently. I’m just gonna nap about it" - Kens

• "Stop behaving in my direction" - Janani

• "Here’s a contextual pickup line: You wanna merge learning histories?" - Abbey

• "From a traditional behavioral perspective.... you know, the old one" - Eva

• "I, myself, am not a nautical gal" - Eva

• "There is no reality" - Evie

• "I have forgotten half the things I am supposed to be doing oops" - Janani

• "I am still here just eating goopy cereal" - Matt

• "If the days were potatoes, they’d be mashed" - Abbey

• "No major lows. Except for squirrels" - Michael

• "I’m just here for the vibes" - Natalie

• "As for highs and lows, it was a a lukewarm week" - Joey

• "Mayhaps, the chaos is simply too appetitive and we should stop trying to fuck with it" - Janani

• "We’re okay with magical thinking in this space" - Em

• "I didn't like the smell of what I was thinking" - Michael

• "All Appetitive All the Time #AAAT" - Em

• "Assholery relationships are super appetitive to me" - Michael

• "There are so many things we can’t perceive because we live in these giant pathetic meat sacks" - Em

• "I feel like there’s an analogy there but also I drank wine so ignore me" - Janani

• "Whoop-de-woo" - Jon Patric

• "Or maybe you get angry instead… because it’s too hard to be scared" - Em

• "Consider adding chasing a chicken to your bucket list" - Shantell

• "We’re gonna stay here talking about Behavior Analysis all night. BA TILL DAWN!" - Em 

• "Two fish for a thesis proofread please" - Brad

• "As far as I am concerned Koala's are lucky we consider them sentient" - Hunter

• "I was born from a yeast culture. I have no idea what is going on" - Hunter

• "Like I said, it’s been a long week of just existing" - JP

• "I’ve never worked with kids, but I am a chaos gremlin" - LaGriff

• "I shall only be contacted by carrier pigeon" - Brad

• "I’m gonna get my ass a rolly chair" - Thomas 

• "How can you be creative if you're not allowed to make errors?" - Hannah

• "What do you want? What is keeping you from wanting it?" - Emily