So I've finally succeeded in something I've been threatening to do for the entirety of college: have a semester where I spend so much time in the lab that no one will ever see me.
I've already got mixed feelings about this. I'm excited to be in the labs, one for a class, the other for research, but I know both are going to consume copious amounts of time. Time that recently has been spent playing Guitar Hero, watching Law and Order, Scrubs, and The Office, denying that many of my friends will be graduating this semester, and the occasional drinking.
So about my labs. They will be known, until I get bored of code-naming everything, as Class Lab and Research Lab. Class Lab is a 3-credit, writing intensive, likely-to-become-7-hours-a-week-nightmare, if only because I have a nagging fear that I am not cutthroat enough to be a research kid in a room full of pre-meds. It will be covering molecular and microbiology techniques and we'll see how I feel about my lab group on Wednesday.
Research Lab...well, I recently just got into it, and odds are I'll be sharing all the boring details with you (not boring to me, but probably dull as paint to people who aren't into systematics or genetics). Basically, I e-mailed Dr. J a month ago, met with him last week, got the offer to work in it yesterday, and will hopefully be meeting with him Monday.
Interspersed with Lab Talk will probably be occasional mention of my life outside the lab -- other classes, friends/boyfriend stuff, the news, maybe touch on the roommate issues. Who knows. I guess I'll write as I feel like writing, and we'll let it go from there.
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