Name: Leah Gerald
Entry: #5 (2/28/2012)
WISE Week: 3
Written on Date:3/4/2012
Mentor: Sagar
Today was a special day. Like last week, we went see
another speaker speak. This time it was about from what I understood how cells
tend to try to organize themselves. He used some words I remembered from
Chemistry like "entropy" and I was excited I could actually
understand that part, but for the most part, it was fairly boring. Many people in
the room fell asleep. In fact, one of my mentors fell asleep. It wasn’t because
the material itself was boring, but because it was a fairly complex concept
that didn’t interest many people there, therefore they couldn’t relate to it. The
exciting part about that day was, before we went to see the speaker, I got to
work under the hood for the first time! There was some pipetting that needed to
be done. They just needed to change the medium for some of the breast cancer
cells. Though it was something so menial, it was hard for me. I believe I took
almost twice as long as my mentors. Even though it was my first time, I was
shocked at how difficult it was. I had been watching them do it every day for a
long enough time now; I just assumed it would come easily to me.
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