WILL THINGS CHANGE FOR BAD ?

Last 8 months I have kind of enjoyed VIP status. With each lab trying to recruit new students they have taken care to be really nice to students rotating in their lab. All the blunders I did recieved the same response " Oh..dont worry ...you are not the first one to do that...just forget it" . Forget what ? Forget that I just washed off 200 dollars down the sink? Forget that I used a protien that took some poor guy 6 months to purify in a completely irrelevant assay and came up with a result that said nothing much? Boy , you'd have definitely heard them wrong.

But trust me thats the fact. New graduate students are allowed to make errors.Big or small they mostly get away with that. With the huge amount of money involved in every step in biology it often amuses me as to how can people be so cool about it. The sad thing is after a month it may not be tolerated anymore. I need to get used to people frowning at me if I am to play around as I did. But I havent messed up much anyway..it was just a couple of times. The mere fear that if I mess things up I might have to repeat the god damn thing all over, makes me overly careful as to what I am doing. Did anyone tell you before ...laziness can sometimes be of help.

But what makes me think of this now? With my cells taking days to grow, I perhaps am absolutely bored. Cummon cells...double up.