The Honours Experience
Today I apparently had the typical honours experience.
I got into the office at 10am, planned a few things and started making up media and reagents at 11am. I was done by 1pm (I don’t know how on earth it took me that long) and took the things to the autoclave to sterilise. Find out that the tech staff who are meant to turn the thing on at the beginning of the day didn’t, and it takes ages to warm up. Then I press a few buttons, release a bit of steam, and it’s set to go. Then it’s back to the lab to make up some more stuff and then walking around to find people to go through my seminar with me. Then 5pm comes, the autoclave has finally finished sterilising my media, and boy has it changed. Glunky bits at the botton of liquid broth, you’d think the media took a trip to the evil bacterial dimension while they were hiding in the autoclave for 4 hours. I have to make up the media again tomorrow, even though I followed the protocols just fine (I think).
So the whole day wasted. Hooray, the honours experience.