"I don't fully understand what it takes to get tenure because I'm not an academic, but I know it's a really big deal. Did you celebrate? We didn't," she says. "From what I gather, it's like having your crush proposed to you, except with a letter that looks like junk mail and no one kisses you on the mouth." She also learns some scientists can name their labs after themselves.

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