So, it's Saturday..
Hi internet audience! It's Saturday afternoon, too cloudy to go to the pool, and I'm resisting the urge to go spend money due to sheer boredom. Hopefully this blog will get new clothes/books/school supplies off my mind :) (But I doubt it.)
1. I'm super SUPER excited to see Harry Potter on Tuesday night. A lot of us are going to the midnight premiere at Southpoint - which means Wednesday is going to be a fabulous day for me, seeing as how I'm going to get back home at like 3am. Still, it's Harry Potter, aka it's worth it. I'm trying to think of any other midnight premieres I've been to and I can't think of any. Cool!
2. Chalk talks are over! I was so impressed by everyone's research - this stuff blows my mind! Kudos to all of the HH Research Fellows for having great presentations. I can see how Dean Nijhout thought that these were some of the best chalk talks they've ever had! I wish I could've had 2 more minutes to talk about mine, though... but board drawings can take up some time.
3. We're now over halfway done with the program, which means I'm starting to get a little frantic about data/results. I've repeated the same experiment 3 times, but my results haven't been very consistent (they're not all over the place, but they're not as comparable as we would hope). I'm about to do it a 4th time and I can usually do one a week, so hopefully I can get this fixed! I do have to say, though, that I have been improving on my Scratch Wound techniques. My scratches (with a p10 tip, down the middle of a 6 well plate which has cells growing on the bottom) are getting more even and less jaggedy than they were when I started. It was definitely nice to see such a marked improvement. Too bad the results weren't what we wanted - oh well. Such is research?
A typical microscopic viewing of a scratch wound - this one was taken at the 0-hour timepoint, way back on June 12. Magnification: 100x!
