This post is for the first week and the first day of the second week.

So this week we started our research into SEA Phages, and let me tell you, its quite the difference from walking around the Lab, to jumping across the sewer to get the average crown width. Of course, that didn’t make any of this less fun.

The first week started off pretty easy, nothing too difficult, and realistically none of this is going to be super difficult. We have our procedures, and even when we are manipulating variables, I assume the lab protocols will keep us from getting too far off track.

However, that assumes the student-researchers know what they’re doing. It would be accurate to say that we all know mostly what we’re doing, but little things here and there require practice. I would not be surprised if there were some rookie mistakes outlined in my lab journals that prevented me from being able to accurately take data, without having to backtrack a few days. But, these can all be fixed within a lab period, maybe quicker if done on a Friday when many people are busy and cannot make it to open lab.

I’m excited to see what my next steps will be for my lab, whether that means going back and retrying my work from the previous day until its correct, or progressing onto the next steps.