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Late night in the lab, bolting some optics to the table, I couldn't help but find myself thinking, "this is the grad school I signed up for!" It's been a long time in coming.

Rana's lab is a thing of beauty. He's a new professor and they built him a lab, to his specifications. Purple cabinets, blue desks, a huge bright orange enamel toolbox. I personally carried the ten boxes from Stanford Research from Shipping & Receiving. The next day the ten Tektronix scopes came. His startup budget must be enormous. Then we unpacked the huge wooden crates shipped air cargo on Virgin Atlantic: the enhanced LIGO laser.