The campus is beautiful, and you can see outside from just about everywhere. They have a cafeteria where the food is sold at cost. I had excellent tortellini with primavera sauce for about $3. A few people have mentioned that new employees at Janelia often experience something similar to The Freshman 15. But they have a gym on campus, so hopefully that won't happen. But the cookie(s) was(were) really good.
I can grab any lab coat from the supplies room and wear it until I'm tired of it, then I throw it into the hamper and get a new one! The old dirty coats magically disappear.
Every person I met there was super nice. I suspect that in the long term that may be the best part. I'm working with a team of five others and a leader, and they all seem like great people. We are working on something called the Fly Olympiad. I'll explain more when I understand everything better, but it looks like Olympiad is a pretty good word for it. We send many, many flies through lots and lots of experiments. But in the real Olympics, people aren't killed when they fail. Well. They aren't killed on site anyways. I was a little worried when China hosted the Olympics.
Remember that game you used to play as a kid where you had to get across the room without touching the floor because it was "lava"?
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This effectively sorts out the more active and agile flies. I'm very excited, and you'll hear more details later on.
