Where are you at this time and what are you most likely to be doing?

Rupa Sridharan and one of her successful PhD students

I am at home and most likely to be asleep. But sometimes I wake up and have an epiphany on some problem that the lab is stuck at. I sometimes send a teams message to the lab member involved at that time. The lab knows the message is an online record keeping of sorts- like recording a dream before you forget it the next morning, and that I do not expect a response.

What’s your favorite thing about this time of day?

Recharging

Least favorite?

If I wake up I can’t go back to sleep!

How can you tell if your work is going well?

Lots of epiphanies turn out to be wrong hunches after discussion with the lab member, but some work out in unexpected ways.