It’s almost funny how bouncy and grinny I get after lab. In my vast experience of two weeks, I think I really like bench work. There’s something appealing about setting up your equipment and materials in a sort of geeky mise en place and methodically going through the work.
Fixed some smears from the bugs we started growing during the last lab. All the cultures showed growth, so I guess I did wait long enough for the loop to cool off. Phew.
I finally got to use a stain(methyl blue). I know it’s a little thing, but imagine spending more than a year reading about [...]
The day job is still in crunch mode, but I got into the lab to check out the bugs I started last week.
Aside from a sad lack of pigmented colonies, it was very cool. My dish sponge sample was just totally overgrown. Lots of tiny irregular colonies everywhere. Two very small but yellow, raised, shiny [...]
Tonight’s lab was a nice change after my disappointment with my performance during the intro to microscopy lab.
It was the standard ‘learn how to mix media, pour a plate, and swab something’ lab. I’ve read about it a dozen times, but one of the great things about taking classes is that I actually [...]
Wonder if it would’ve been better if I’d kept Data’s song in my head?
Life forms,
You tiny little life forms!
You precious little life forms
Where are you?
Data sings about life forms
Part of the reason I’m taking a class is to find out how I like the reality of microbiology. It is easy to think of microscopy as pretty simple, especially if you’re only used to dissecting scopes or the 200x deals from middle school science class: Place slide, coarse focus on low magnification, switch [...]
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