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I liked these mice. Unfortunately, immunology lab called for them to be killed.
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I liked these mice. Unfortunately, immunology lab called for them to be killed.
My lab this past Monday was significantly longer than the time I spent sleeping last night. I find that curious.
A lot of work to do before graduation, yet I feel quite ready to be done.
To augment this post, I will (happily) provide you with some lyrics to a very short Fountains of Wayne song.
I don’t have class tomorrow. *So happy*. Just have to go in for labs on Friday and Monday. Hurrah!
I don’t consider myself particularly gifted in the art of conversation. My one hard and fast rule is to avoid saying too much or revealing a lot of my personality; I would rather most people saw me as shy and reserved, instead of judging me on a sliver of myself that is likely misrepresentative of the whole. This default reserved behavior is important in surviving when speaking to or interacting with a novel group, where you can feel the judgments flying back and forth like biscuits in a food fight.
“Ok, so is everybody clear - any questions?” It was a nice thing of my lab professor to ask - I appreciated the fact that he checked in with the zeitgeist of our knowledge midway through our four hour lab marathon. In my mind, I responded: “I do have a question - but it’s of a rather general nature. What’s that? I should ask it? Oh, ok … what the crappin’ heck is going on?”
Taken in the research lab - you can never wear rings or jewlery while doing chemistry, they simply get in the way.
From: Micek, Alexander J.
Sent: Tue 4/11/2006 11:50 AM
To: Dr. West
Subject: Lab Schedule
Hello,
Just checking - we have no lab this week, but lab next week (I’m in the Thursday afternoon lab), correct?
Three and a half hours into my cell biology lab, as I dated my lab notebook, I turned to ask my randomly assigned lab partner a question.
“It’s the 26th, right?”
“I don’t know.”
“… I see.”
My worries here, I think you will understand: not only do I have a lab partner who doesn’t even know what day it is, but said partner has absolutely no motivation to find out.
Sometimes, collegiate level labs do not work. In some ways, this can be funny, and in others, not quite funny. Simply put, you do not get the results you needed, wanted, or hoped for, and therefore you lose some credit for doing the lab. In fact, at the Universtiy of Minnesota (and probably most places), the TA’s are given a range of acceptable lab result values that will result in full credit. If the numbers are outside of this range, you do not get full credit. Some way to review the “scientific method.” They encourage us to use scientific reasoning and ignore “right and wrong” while we grapple with finding a solution, and then turn around and grade result accuracy. I have yet to see if this applies to my Animal Behavior lab, in which we visited the zoo and observed Japanese snow monkeys. We accessed primary source literature (a lot of Japanese people study the Japanese snow monkeys, believe it or not), formulated a partial ethogram, and then promptly watched our experiment crash and burn.