I had to do so much prep work and then actual lab work today, I was a little tight on time to getting to Journal club. I made it there on time though, and on my way walking there, I passed by Bronte, and so we ended up walking together. Because if two people are late, especially if one of them is presenting today, we're not really late, are we?
Bronte and John presented a paper on Xist, and the room was dark, a little stuffy, and I was so tired, I found myself almost dozing off/zoning out occasionally, though I managed to stay awake throughout the whole talk. Maybe next time I'll bring coffee. It was interesting, certainly a lot of it was over my head because sure, long noncoding RNAs are cool, but I also know nearly nothing about them. Time is limited because I have to allot that between studying protocols of basic lab procedures and reading review/scientific papers slowly for not only two journal clubs, but also in preparation for my research project this summer.
Hetal, Deborah, Christina and I all found some time to sit down in a cubicle and talk (between downtime for all of us in the lab) and it was fun and interesting. It's so odd now, to think back to two weeks ago, when I didn't really know any of them, to now, when Hetal will be leaving this lab around July 17, less than 2 weeks from now, and I'll be leaving in 4 weeks. It was too short being with everyone here, but I have 4 more weeks to make the most out of.
DC area rain is ridiculous. Today's weather was no exception. It was lightly, steadily raining for a good half hour, until suddenly, you hear a "whoosh" sound and the windows are blurry because streams of rain is pouring from the sky. This deluge continues for a good half hour before it finally subsides back to the steady rain it had been for the whole day, on and off. And as the rain falls steadily, the sun comes out. Clearly, the weather is quite odd here.
I stayed so late because my mentor had me do some prepwork for tomorrow. Shireen then gave me a ride to the train station, which was so nice of her. The rain had subsided to a light trickle, so I didn't get very wet. She saved me just over a mile walk and at least 20 minutes!
Today, my mentor had did my transformation experiment, and firstly, he got more than 4 colonies growing in each culture, and secondly, he had at least 40 colonies growing on each culture...what am I doing wrong?
That's science for you. Failure, failure, failure, with the rare appearance of success.
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