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09 Jun 2011, 5:41 pm
Orwell wrote:
Research is a lot of fun- when you are allowed to do it. Someone as young as you, especially in a bio lab (bio labs are horrible for this) will usually be consigned to menial tasks and not permitted to participate in actual research. I spent a semester at my university's medical campus mixing buffer. I later got into some real research in the physics department.
Haha thanks! I've actually met with the professor in the lab and he's assured me that I'll jump right in with the research, not start by washing dishes and stuff. It IS a bio lab. I'm not worried because I LOVE biology (almost to an unreasonable degree).
Good to know!
09 Jun 2011, 11:55 pm
10 Jun 2011, 12:06 am
Albirea wrote:
I've actually met with the professor in the lab and he's assured me that I'll jump right in with the research, not start by washing dishes and stuff.
Hopefully that is true. Best of luck to you; I had a less than positive experience working in a bio lab. But then, in my case the prof was never actually in the lab, and I only interacted with his assistants, none of whom were particularly good with English.
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I'm not worried because I LOVE biology (almost to an unreasonable degree).
Same here- I'm a bio major, and in my high school AP bio class I actually read the entire Campbell/Reece book. But there are few things more frustrating than showing up to a job you are interested in, and not getting to do anything.
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17 Jun 2011, 12:08 am
Orwell wrote:
Albirea wrote:
I've actually met with the professor in the lab and he's assured me that I'll jump right in with the research, not start by washing dishes and stuff.
Hopefully that is true. Best of luck to you; I had a less than positive experience working in a bio lab. But then, in my case the prof was never actually in the lab, and I only interacted with his assistants, none of whom were particularly good with English.
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I'm not worried because I LOVE biology (almost to an unreasonable degree).
Same here- I'm a bio major, and in my high school AP bio class I actually read the entire Campbell/Reece book. But there are few things more frustrating than showing up to a job you are interested in, and not getting to do anything.
Thread necro! XD
I used Campbell/Reece at school too. But when I was 10-ish my mom bought me "Life: The Science of Biology" (another 1st year college text) and I would read it even though I didn't understand most of what it said. I've started researching now, and it's fun! Though I'm still at the basic point of learning how to do dilutions, growth curves, western blots, gel electrophoresis, and plasmid purifications. NO dish washing.
The equipment in the lab is way better than high school equipment, which is a relief because I had nightmares about the pipets not working like in school. lol
The bacteria we're using are Acinetobacter baumannii, Haemophilus influenzae, and of course E. coli.
17 Jun 2011, 10:30 am
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I used Campbell/Reece at school too. But when I was 10-ish my mom bought me "Life: The Science of Biology" (another 1st year college text) and I would read it even though I didn't understand most of what it said. I've started researching now, and it's fun! Though I'm still at the basic point of learning how to do dilutions, growth curves, western blots, gel electrophoresis, and plasmid purifications. NO dish washing. The equipment in the lab is way better than high school equipment, which is a relief because I had nightmares about the pipets not working like in school. lol
That sounds really interesting, I hope my research is as fun. Given my experience with the head of the Biochemistry department (He was a deathly tedious lecturer), I suspect I'll be washing test tubes.
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