Summary: The author is unhappy with their current experience in graduate school. They feel disconnected from their studies and frustrated with the amount of information they are expected to memorize, particularly in molecular biology. The author questions the importance of memorizing so much information when they can easily look it up when needed. The author is working on their thesis research, which involves discovering something novel in the field of molecular biology and microbiology. The author would like to use their free time to write, but has not done so in years due to being overwhelmed with their undergraduate work.