About Us

Why Join?

If you are reading this, you are no doubt a serious student. If you are looking for a serious approach to graduate school, you have at last come to the right place. But we also have fun!

When you first join, you are designated a Junior Petrosadist — you will place your nose to the grindstone, and will not raise it until the day you graduate. You will go to class, slave in the lab with your fellow petrosadists, study until you weep and gnash your teeth, and like the rest of us, YOU WILL LIKE IT!

What to expect

At our center, the work is extremely rewarding. In the first place, the Second Law of Thermodynamics is excluded from the realm of the Green Center basement. You will find that it is practically unheard of to find yourself carefully and meticulously preparing a sample, slowly and painstakingly bringing it up to temperature and pressure, recording 90 data points, only to have the sample crumble and leak before the last, absolutely critical 91st to 100th! Well, that occurs in only 83.267% of samples.

Still interested?

For more info, please email Dr. Manika Prasad.