25 minipreps. In less than an hour and a half. Except for none of this would be possible without this handheld device called the repeater, which pipets the same volume multiple times. It's a hand/thumb and time saver. Repeaters just might be my favorite devices in the lab. Why 25, because that's a ridiculously large amount? Danielle had 58 minipreps to do and I helped her with some.
I get more reminders of how young I am. Well, Danielle realized that I was only 5 years older than her oldest son. Alicia made me feel a little better about the age/generation gap between me and everyone when we talked about her high school times. APs haven't changed much, neither has standardized testing or extracurriculars. It was nice eating lunch with her.
Tomorrow, my mentor has me doing cloning from primer to DNA sequencing: I'm cloning from start to finish, the whole process. I was preparing for tomorrow and doing my research, and I'm a little worried, but at the very least, even if I don't get a good result, I hope I don't make any mistakes with my procedures and techniques.
Journal club (for our lab) meets tomorrow and Lesley is presenting...2 papers. So much to read (or in my case, try to even begin to understand).
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