Day 11 - Science Quiz by the Prof and Aquarium Cleaning session
Day 11 - Science Quiz by the Prof and Aquarium Cleaning
Today is a very tiring day although I did not have many things to do in the morning. The only thing that I did in the morning was a midi-prep. This time Ni already warned me many times not to make mistake since I did not managed to isolate any plasmid for my last Midi. Shen Qian and Foong Mei were only watching as they have never done this before. I made lots of mistake like pouring the LB into the water container that Ni uses for dispensing pipette tips instead of pouring it to the beaker... Sigh... But in the end I still managed to isolate the plasmids....
In the afternoon, after lunch, Prof Hong decided to test our knowledge (or our memorizing skill about restriction sites). So we went to his office and he asked us to write the restriction sites that he asked us to memorize last week on his white board. He told us to think fast and treat it as if we were having a science quiz where we have to buzz as quick as possible. To make the quiz even more interesting, he decided to give us some incentive which is new tissue paper to wipe the white board (Swt... -___-") if we could get 100% correct sites. So if we could not answer them correctly, we have to use the used tissue paper or wipe the board with our hands (-__-")
After the quiz, we have to go to the fish tank room to clean the fish tank. It was a very tiring job. First, we have to transfer the fish from the small tanks into big tanks. Then we have remove all the dirt from the bottom of the tanks and the sponge. Third, we have to adjust the water pipes so that the water would be dripping instead of spurting. Then we remove half of the water from the tanks (the tanks are fixed to the racks, so we cannot just pour the water out) before putting some salt to the tank. The problem was there are hundreds of small tanks in the room and we have to clean them all. In the end, I got a blister on my finger because the tap of the pipes were new and they were very tight.
Today is a very tiring day although I did not have many things to do in the morning. The only thing that I did in the morning was a midi-prep. This time Ni already warned me many times not to make mistake since I did not managed to isolate any plasmid for my last Midi. Shen Qian and Foong Mei were only watching as they have never done this before. I made lots of mistake like pouring the LB into the water container that Ni uses for dispensing pipette tips instead of pouring it to the beaker... Sigh... But in the end I still managed to isolate the plasmids....
In the afternoon, after lunch, Prof Hong decided to test our knowledge (or our memorizing skill about restriction sites). So we went to his office and he asked us to write the restriction sites that he asked us to memorize last week on his white board. He told us to think fast and treat it as if we were having a science quiz where we have to buzz as quick as possible. To make the quiz even more interesting, he decided to give us some incentive which is new tissue paper to wipe the white board (Swt... -___-") if we could get 100% correct sites. So if we could not answer them correctly, we have to use the used tissue paper or wipe the board with our hands (-__-")
After the quiz, we have to go to the fish tank room to clean the fish tank. It was a very tiring job. First, we have to transfer the fish from the small tanks into big tanks. Then we have remove all the dirt from the bottom of the tanks and the sponge. Third, we have to adjust the water pipes so that the water would be dripping instead of spurting. Then we remove half of the water from the tanks (the tanks are fixed to the racks, so we cannot just pour the water out) before putting some salt to the tank. The problem was there are hundreds of small tanks in the room and we have to clean them all. In the end, I got a blister on my finger because the tap of the pipes were new and they were very tight.
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