I promised I would do a report on it. Yet, turned out that today’s experimental lab project thing wasn’t such big of a deal-it was actually like a warm-up in my opinion, and that’s what I told my lab partner.
First of all, what we did is lay out all the glass slides into th glass stands diagonally sot that the position of slides is alternating. To be honest, we did it wrong at first, which cost us tons of time, since the professor didn’t clarify how the slides were supposed to lie NOT in a manner of straight line. We assume the example run he gave us was wrong, because um… he’s an old guy with reading glasses on, you know what I mean, old people can easily make mistake with being acknowledged of it happening, NO OFFENSE. Anyway, let’s just say we made a fool of ourselves cuz we thought we were being shrewd and everything, so inevitably, we would have to clean up the mess. We redid the whole thing, which didn’t take as long.
The task was indeed tedious just as how Dr.Cassell indicated (he said he had to pay one of his sons 5 dollars an hour to help him out, but still, the son wouldn’t do it anymore. See how legendary we are right here-we finished a task no one would ever want to be assigned.) Before lunch, we placed the slide stands in 10% nitrogen solution in order to get rid of the unwanted substances that stained the slides, such as fats, finger prints.
After we got back from lunch, we rinsed off the nitrogen solution and heated up a bottle of mixture to 80 degrees. The heating system is so damn cool. The bottle that came with the console had a little rod at the bottom. If you turn on the heating tool, the normal-looking rod would automatically find its place in the center and start spinning to stir up the solution/mixture. COOL BEANS. I felt like a little kid cuz I was prone to get so easily amazed by everything including, this time, the change in color, from lime green to teal/seaweed green. It might sound like a really brief process, but it was so time-consuming. We stayed there for a whole 1 and a half hour just for this.
That’s it for the report, methinks (cool vocab). I don’t feel like keeping on babbling now.
