Book 1: Settling into Life Day 13 (June 19, 2015)

So today I went to a workshop that's required for all summer interns. The metro was running late and I left the house late, so I ran in 15 minutes late, all sweaty, and had to squeeze into an open seat. Whoops, hooray for first impressions.

I tried to talk to people around me though, and especially when we broke up into groups to do station that practiced lab techniques (that part was pretty boring for me only because I've done everything for the whole week for at least 5 different experiments already except for the microscopy station, because I finally figured out how to look into a two-eye microscope without getting cross-eyed and dizzy...after a whole year of AP bio...the trick is to keep your eyes a distance away from the eyepiece), I got to meet Bryce, Samto, Darell, Emily, and Olivia. We talked a little, all of them were doing clinical except for Emily, who was doing similar lab work like I am, and Bryce was a coder. We ended up eating lunch together outside on a picnic table, talking and laughing. We talked a little from where we were all from, what we were doing, how we were liking it so far, and we tangented onto ambulance sirens, and even spiders.

The presentations were all pretty informative though, especially the one on poster presentations because that's information I'll need come August when I present, and the presenter was entertaining.

That was my whole day, since the workshop ran from 9am-4pm. Afterwards, I stopped by the lab for an hour, met with Jeni, who was one of the people running the workshop, and after talking to her about how I wasn't sure what type of lab notebook I should use (and how her presentation on the lab notebook was really helpful), she surprised me as I was packing up to go, with a new one that she had, telling me to contact Richard and Black to ask which I should, and if I didn't end up using this lab notebook, I could fill it out on my own and take it with me. Lab notebooks are supposed to be kept in the lab, so once I leave after the summer, my lab notebook stays behind, but I can always make photocopies before I go.

I got home pretty early, but I just vegetated as usual (after work, I'm so mentally drained, I just don't do anything for the rest of the night, and since this apartment doesn't have a desk, I sit on my bed and I am very unproductive).

Come Monday and Tuesday, I have a lot of lab work ahead of me. Actually not a lot. Just 8 samples I'll be working with, and that's a lot less compared to 28!