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April 13, 2005

Rotation Three, Day One

I'm sorry, folks, about last rotation... I know I didn't say a whole lot about it even when I was asked. The truth was that there wasn't a lot there that I could rave about... Mostly it was a lot of sitting at the computer. Part of the problem with computer work is that you don't necessarily feel productive, especially when you're doing searches and trying to figure out how to do something. The other part of the problem is that any computer with a functioning web browser gets me distracted :) (although the SGI that I used only had Netscape 4.7 on it to begin with... Hardly what I would consider functional! I fixed that on short order, though.)

This rotation just began for me today, and already I'm seeing a concrete difference. Mostly because I'm working with concrete things! I'm not going to be doing any computer work this rotation... It's all going to be in the wet lab. I have to admit this made me a bit nervous to start - because I've had very little time in the wet lab, and I feel like my peers have far exceeded me in that area so there's a lot of catching up I have to do. But today went quite smoothly, and I'm remembering things that I learned many months and years ago. What I did today couldn't be considered significant by any scientist who does this stuff on a regular basis -- but for me, each one of these things is important. Even making buffers (which consisted of weighing out various compounds and adding them to water :)

I'm excited, at this point, for this rotation. Maybe later I'll be intimidated but for now I have just the right amount of help that I need, plus the leeway to make mistakes (since, of course, I'm so inexperienced :)

Today I didn't have a whole lot to do so I'm leaving early. I still have a bit of homework to do for tomorrow but I should have enough time to get it all done. Maybe I'll even have some time to do something fun!

Sent from: Karl Gutwin

Posted by kgutwin at April 13, 2005 04:50 PM

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