That's Right, Slacking Off Is Easy

The lead professor is having a meltdown

The senior student keeps slacking off

The junior professor schemes to snag a "hat"

The younger student wants to steal first authorship

Whoever gets emotionally invested loses

MDPI, Frontiers: even if they're on the warning list, they're still Q2

Cell Reports, Nature Communications, Science Advances: aren't these CNS too?

Welcome to the academic colosseum. The winner gets no prize. The loser is Master out.

Reader's guide:

1. Everything above is nonsense I made up.

2. This is an alternate universe, an alternate universe.

3. Level up and fight monsters.

4. Don't worry about the female leads' love lives. It's just a wholesome scumbag woman VS scumbag woman pairing.

5. This story is entirely fictional.

Theme: How can a graduate student's trash data be called trash?