As my time here is coming to an end, things have picked up at work. The mice are making babies and I'm getting more cells to work with. This means that I have been working late with packed work days. The only people I have been hanging out with are my mentors/colleagues.
I just spent the last hour struggling with picking mouse embryonic stem cells (this is as in I have to literally go in with a pipet and take the inner cell mass of the hatched blastocyst). My mentor had to leave early so I did it by myself (but he has never done this either so his presence probably wouldn't have mattered much). I tried my best and (this maybe tmi but) I was sweating so badly. It was hard to get the microscope, pipet, pipet tip, and the petri dish to line up and do what I wanted, but I think I managed. We will be seeing the results tomorrow. Oh yeah, did I mention? I'm working the weekend!
LILY
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