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Another stellar day at the lab

Posted by WickedMolasses on October 2, 2008 at 5:30am
The homeless-santa-claus excuse of a professor was on a role once again today for our micro lab. With characteristic patronizing non-answers, we learned today that all of the processes we have been going through in the last three or four labs - about 9-12 hours of time - we have to all come into the lab sometime this weekend and do all those processes together at once on our individual unknown samples now.Okay, so I don't fancy driving an hour up to the campus on my weekend when I have a ton of other classes to attend to and spending the majority of my day at the lab to get this done (it will probably take about 8 hours), but alright. That I don't like, but can deal with.Here's the problem.He still hasn't really explained to us what exactly we HAVE been doing with the last three or four labs. If he couldn't give us straight answers then - how are we supposed to do this alone with our own samples? And there's the one conversion thing that we've never done before, but somehow or another we're supposed to come up with this after doing all of our dilutions, spread plates, readings, etc. Don't know what it is! But we're supposed to do it. Also there's something else we did today...with these reddish samples. We took readings. Don't ask me why.And had we not mentioned that we needed all the many supplies for the series of tests we'll do over the weekend, he probably would have forgotten to get and leave it all out!Whatever it is we figure out to do this weekend, we're supposed to do a write up on it too for next week. And the exam! It still had some pretty left field questions and things that we never went over - but it was better than the last one! I think....that means, in other words, maybe the class just failed this time instead of really failed.
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Late Night Papers - our desperate efforts in an overworked state of mind

Posted by WickedMolasses on September 30, 2008 at 4:59am
Alright, so of course I shouldn't be on here, but I need to get the juices of my brain flowing, so in the mean time...I have to have a paper turned in tomorrow that talks about the "face" I present to the world (communications class). Its all crap, right? I mean there's not research involved or anything - but believe it or not, its when I'm writing junk - pages upon pages that don't really say anything that I consider important - that I have the hardest time.Gimme a research paper any day!But don't make me sit here and go on about my emotions and self disclosure and yada yada yada.I also have a microbio exam tomorrow, and I've barely had time to study for it. Too much to do this weekend and today - I need more time!!!! Too many classes....
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