 Are you going to cure cancer, solve climate change, or build a time machine? I get asked about the time machine a lot. I don't know why that's people's go-to answer for when they mention physics. But then you have other people who are just like, I'm going to cure cancer. And it's like, okay, step by step, like let's start there. Let's look at a specific thing. Ask us. What big piece would you also like to unpack? Sorry! I'm so sorry. Oh, oh, oh. What are you going to do with the... Oh, guys, you got a forbidden question. What are you going to do? What are you like, graduate? Oh, I hate it. I hate this. I hate it. Especially when... Oh, why were you selected? Oh yeah, why did she get selected? I don't know. I guess it's something like, are you going to build a time machine? Yeah. No. Get out of here. Build a time machine. Unfortunately, it's actually not possible to at least travel back in time. Unless you have a wormhole or something, but we don't build those. If we have a time machine, we're going to go back and like change all of the bad things, you know what I mean? I would go to the future. That's the past though. You know, my mom always asked me this question. What's the cancer one? Well, I'm not a cancer biologist. So, probably not. Probably not. Some of these questions, I'm just there like... Finally, the true us. Give us. Is this just like being in the Big Bang Theory? Okay, first of all, I'm not even sure what kind of job the people in the Big Bang Theory have. It seems to never involve doing any actual research, so... We are way cooler than them. Aha. Take my word for it. All of them. I mean, like Big Bang don't have this beautiful scene. Just like in this boring grey room all the time. And they were like, what? Oh my god. And that's when Big Bang Theory was taking off. It's like, oh, you're just like, like, Leonard or Sheldon. And I didn't know what they were talking about. I never watched the Big Bang Theory. And I was like, oh, okay, that's cute. And then I watched it and I'm like, this is insulting. How are your experiments going? I guess well enough because I'm graduating. How are your experiments going? Oh no, come on, not today. Well, right now I'm not doing any experiments, thankfully. Of course, I mean, my final stages. But when I was doing experiments, they were tough. You will give 100 different answers to this question at 100 different stages of your PhD career. Most of the time it's not going well. I mean, that's what science is. We had to, you know, stress about it. Many times they don't go well. I didn't get some good juice and then it goes well. But there are times... Write something down. Write something down? Like what? Somebody. Somebody? Write somebody down? Okay. How many papers have you published? Back in the days when I was still a bachelor's student, so it's just before my time at OIST, when I was moonlighting as a solid-state chemist, I got one paper, but none at OIST just yet. You want to answer this question? I submit it. Not a paper, but book chapter. I don't know where it is now. Yeah, that's about it, yeah. Oh, soon you will get it, don't worry. You are in 30 yet, right? That's okay. You still have time to publish more papers. Hopefully. How many papers have you published? Oh, my God. Yeah, but three. Oh, you don't mind that question. No, I don't. But I'm not first-order, thanks to my previous professors. But I hate that question. Yeah, I hate that question too. For this question, it's different. But also, simply, it's a stressful question, because we might be... Some of us might be trying to publish before a defense, or have high expectations by our supervisor. Or revisions. So it's simply... Yeah, it's not a very useful question, because it highly depends on the field. And also, it's a stressful question, because some of us might be struggling a lot with it. So that's a difficult one. I have one paper in Electromechanical Engineering. I don't have any papers right here in my current field. I'm still five years running. What are you going to do with your degree? Good question. I don't know. Oh, God, the other forbidden question. What are you going to do with your degree? What are you going to do when you graduate? Oh, boy, I still don't know yet, and I'm graduating next month, so... In my defense, I just got here two years ago. But I don't know yet, I feel like that's something that you should ask me in five to six years when I'm wrapping things up. What are you going to do with your degree? I will lord it over everyone and make them call me doctor. I think I would answer you when I get the job after I finish my PhD. When will you finish? When are you graduating? Oh, the eternal question. I'm glad you asked me this now and not a few months ago. It's not a fair question to ask. Yeah, because it's never going to be what you think it is. Maybe ask me only after... When I tell you that my examination date is decided and I invite you to my graduation ceremony, you can ask me this question. But before then, please do not ask. When will you finish? You will finish at some point. When will you graduate? You will graduate when you graduate. That's basically as simple as I can make it. I didn't mind if anybody asked me, option, do you have an idea when you are going to finish your PhD? I said, of course, if my microscope is working well, I'll be graduating even in three years. So it depends. Every project is different. Every PhD is different. You go through them at different speeds. You go to the same lab and finish at different times. Two people can start in the same year and work in different labs and finish at different times. Or at the same time. It all depends on your situation. Every PhD is unique. Every PhD is different. How's your Japanese? Can you be honest to know about that? I don't know. I'm sorry. If you want to follow the latest always news, please like and subscribe. Down there. Just right here.