So I just realised the last two months worth of experiments in my last 4 months before completing all experiments (that's 50% of time) has been a waste of reagents, effort, money and time because I was using the wrong core ingredient to begin with. On the positive side, I think I've got the right thing now and I've learned the methods well enough that I can hopefully repeat everything within the next couple of weeks before I need to present for my pre-submission review!
And also, it would be nice if the data made sense.
Trust me it is funny. Kind of like how another phd student in my lab has spent the last few months trying to circumvent a problem that is now fixed by the recent availability of a new reagent in the market--sort of rendering all her work redundant.. We had a good laugh about it just now.
You know what else is funny? How they use pictures of smart looking kids wearing protective goggles confidently looking through a microscope as the quintessential scientist in brochures. The only time you'd ever see anyone working in a lab look like that is in fact when they are posing for those brochure pictures. Normally, they are looking befuddled as their results unfurl and the 3 day experiment that was pinned with high hopes slowly comes undone and turns into another experiment that will be pushed to the back of the pile of unwritten reports in the lab book.
i can only thank god I have a little man to come home to so that each night I forget science and phd and data and the next day Im ready to go through another day in the lab.
And also, it would be nice if the data made sense.
Trust me it is funny. Kind of like how another phd student in my lab has spent the last few months trying to circumvent a problem that is now fixed by the recent availability of a new reagent in the market--sort of rendering all her work redundant.. We had a good laugh about it just now.
You know what else is funny? How they use pictures of smart looking kids wearing protective goggles confidently looking through a microscope as the quintessential scientist in brochures. The only time you'd ever see anyone working in a lab look like that is in fact when they are posing for those brochure pictures. Normally, they are looking befuddled as their results unfurl and the 3 day experiment that was pinned with high hopes slowly comes undone and turns into another experiment that will be pushed to the back of the pile of unwritten reports in the lab book.
i can only thank god I have a little man to come home to so that each night I forget science and phd and data and the next day Im ready to go through another day in the lab.
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