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I wake up around 6:30-7:00 am in the morning. This varies by the day (and how tired I am from the day before). I will then eat breakfast. I usually like to eat something with eggs to get me going, but a few times a week I will make myself a fruit smoothie or eat some oatmeal instead. Then I get dressed for the day. Several days of the week, I go to the climbing gym before heading into work, but the other days I go to work straight from home. Since I am a Ph.D. student, I work on campus and have to find parking, then walk to the building I work in. Once there, I get organized for the day and begin my experiments. Lunchtime varies from day to day. Sometimes I will go get lunch with friends somewhere off-campus. Other times my friends and I bring our lunches, and we enjoy our meals outside in a courtyard. This is usually followed-up by a trip to our campus turtle pond. There are sometimes where I just feel like eating lunch at my desk, while I catch up on some TV shows. After lunch, I will resume my lab work and finish up things for the day. I will also use any down-time to work on data on my computer or read some papers. I leave around 4 or 5 pm. Somedays I stay a little later to attend meetings with some of the extracurricular activities I am involved in. These activities include SAGES (The Society for the Advancement of Gender Equity in STEM), The Scope (A student-run newsletter in my department where we try to build community by writing and sharing our experiences), and SI (Supplemental Instruction where I am a supervisor for a group of undergraduate students who serve as peer tutors). Once I get home for the evening, I will make dinner (or eat leftovers from the day before) and then relax with my cats or play video games with my partner before heading to bed.