Mmm smell that brand new notebook!

Some graduate students might measure progress by time, or maybe number of papers published. The publications one is valid, and I know several people who invalidate the idea that time spent in graduate school = progress towards graduation, but one of my favorite ways to measure progress is by notebooks. I finished my second lab notebook over the weekend.

I LOVE getting brand new, pristine, never written-in notebooks. Especially when they have graph paper and nerdy things like designated lines for page numbers and signatures...