Two minutes after 'Congratulations, Doctor.' Still shaking.
The gift table
Spoil Dr. Sam Okafor a little
🍾
The good champagne, chilled
from the Chen Lab
“On ice since Tuesday. We believed in you before the committee did.”
🧸
Teddy in a tiny lab coat
from Mom
“His name is Dr. Bear. He has no publications. Love him anyway.”
🖼️
Page one of the thesis, framed
from Fatima
“Six years, 247 pages. This one started it all.”
☕
A very serious espresso machine
from Jess & the group chat
“For the postdoc all-nighters we know you'll pretend not to pull.”
🎁 Dr. Okafor's first-real-vacation fund
Six years, zero holidays. Help send Sam somewhere with no Wi-Fi, no reviewers, and nothing due.
51% of the way there · 17 people chipped in
The guestbook
Leave Dr. Sam Okafor a message
🔗 Unlisted — anyone with the link can sign, no account needed
Fatima Al-Sayedlabmate & page host
We made this page because six years of 6 a.m. timepoints, shared cold pizza, and you talking each of us through our own panics deserved more than sheet cake in the break room. The lab isn't the lab without you, Doc.
Amara Dialloundergrad mentee
You taught me how to pipette, how to read a paper, and that a failed western is data too. Every good habit I have in lab is yours. Congratulations, Dr. O!!
Dev Ramanathanlabmate
ok but who waters gerald (the incubator plant) now. congrats doc, first round's on you forever 🍾🥼
Jess Palmerfriend since college
Freshman year you said you'd 'probably do science or whatever.' SIX YEARS of grad school later, look at you. The group chat has already booked flights. Proud of you, nerd.
Rosa Okafortheir mom
My child is a DOCTOR!!! I do not understand one word of chapter three but I have read the acknowledgments eleven times and cried every time. Your father would be beaming. All my love always, Mom
Dr. Priya Chentheir advisor
Six years ago you asked me if it was okay to fail in my lab. Today your committee signed in under ten minutes. Watching you become the scientist you are has been the honor of my career. Congratulations, Dr. Okafor.