Time flies… Another week has just gone by with July loomng near. The whole week is pretty much another roller coaster ride. Was forced to change project once again. The consolation is that I will have a mentor this time round meaning I need not venture around alone from now on.
Gradually, I think I have slowly cultivated my passion for science research work. Its not as easy as it is made to seem on paper. When the results did not appear after 2 days of hardwork – running gels, washings, incubating and testing, it will no doubt be a very big disappointment. The practice I received these few weeks like just remain as practice. When the real experiment starts, it will be a totally different case. “No results” will sound more devastating but it will force us to think further about what has gone wrong. Being inexperienced personnels in this field, it will be difficult to accept such facts at first. But slowly, I believe we will all learn to accept it and take it into our stride to make things better.
All that being said, positives do happen as well. Performed 8 rat brain injections last wednesday and everything turned out pretty smooth and fine. More experience really did the job for us. The 8 rats were more or less done in around 3 hours. As compared to the 5-6 hours work during the last session, the improvement is obviously huge. For me, the phobia due to the mouse bite last week did not seem to have dissipated. The problem is there -> a solution is needed. How long will I take to curb the phobia? Only time will tell…
