My first day

So this was my first day.

i was woken up by the horrible drilling sound outside my window by some construction work, unable to fall asleep afterwards. i hurried to the lab at 905am, and realised that i forgot to bring my labcoat. i chose this time cos i thought the prof's gonna be there by 9 and would spend some time talking to the grad students, so at 905 he should have time to attend to me. well, i'm totally wrong... the prof came at 930 and only his grad students were there. but they received me warmly and explained to me what we are gonna do for the whole summer.

so i'm working with this indian girl, shaliny. she had lab experience before in the department of botany. when the grad students asked her about autocalating, agar plating blah she could answer most of the questions, while i just stood there listening, appearing rather silly. i felt quite embarrassed since this is my first lab job and i'm ignorant of everything. but i guess it's better this way, so if i've any question i can check out with her.

so we listened attentively to usheer, who explained to us the project they finished and the prospective areas that we'll be working on. he gathered a bunch of papers for us to read. before we really sat down and read, he took us for a floor tour and showed us all the weird equipment i thought i'd never get to see in person.

so for the rest of the morning and the whole afternoon we were reading primary papers. i think my body lacks lactase, my stomach began to ache hours after i had milk with cereals for breakfast. besides i was so sleepy, considering the fact that today is the only day i got up before 12 except exam days in the past one month. i kept dosing off several times. then sherry and daisy came along to look for me for lunch. i thought after the break i'd be refreshed but i fell aleep again in the afternoon during jamie's presentation rehearsal... =.=

they turned off the lights in the conference room during the 40-min long presentation, making the room very cozy for sleeping. i shifted here and there once a while in a state of semi-consciousness to pretend that i was listening. so basically i was dozing off once or twice in one position and once or twice in another. i must look funny but i doubt anyone noticed, cos i saw usheer dozing off as well. muhahahaa.

finally we got to do some hands-on before we left for good. asad taught us some basic stuff with plasmids, both of us felt good about it. now i'm back recording everything down, cos there's gonna be a 15-min presonal presentation in the early august on what we've done in the lab by each summer student, and it's open for everyone who's interested to see how we make a fool of ourselves. i think i'll have to update my blog more often from now on.

so that was my first day, afterall it's not as bad as i expected.