Book 2: The Golden Thread Day 33 (July 9, 2015)

I followed Hetal around today as she did a Western blot, and then in the evening, my mentor and I went into the cell culture lab and I did real work with cell culture. Contamination is a huge deal and I definitely need to be more mindful about that. My mentor's snarky comment: I'll be surprised if you don't have contaminated cells by tomorrow. Well, it was my first time. I think I'm slowly becoming righthanded; I was pipetting in the cell culture lab with my right hand, for easy of tip disposal since the trash was on my left.

Other than that, I had scheduled to play tennis, but it rained (and we had a tornado watch at one point and then a flood watch until 12am). We've been getting a lot of rain (I'm sure CA is pretty jealous of us right now) but it has only improved the humidity by only a little bit. 

Left later than almost everyone in our lab just because my experiments ran late. I still managed to find time to stop at a Whole Foods next to Tenleytown station, buy some cookie mix, and then get home and bake cookies for the lab meeting tomorrow. I didn't have to bake, but I felt like currently everyone could use some cookies, myself included.