UV Light Cleared the Fog. Mine Didn't

I read about those tiny galaxies today—the ones that punched above their weight, cleared cosmic fog with pure UV light. 83 small starburst galaxies doing what massive ones couldn't. Sitting here at 2 AM, staring at my failed Western blot for the sixth time, I wonder what it feels like to be that kind of small. The kind that matters. Those galaxies existed when the universe was 800 million years old. They carved channels through hydrogen fog, let light escape. I'm three years into my PhD and still can't get my protein to express properly. The paper says you'd need 200,000 of those ancient galaxies to equal our Milky Way. But somehow, together, they lit up everything. I keep thinking about that—how being small doesn't mean being invisible. How sometimes the quiet ones in the back are doing the real work. My advisor hasn't replied to my draft in two weeks. But those galaxies? They changed the entire universe just by existing. #GradSchoolLife #ImposterInTheRoom #ScienceFatigue #Science