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lea_hazelToday I had lab. I missed microbiology because it was at 8 AM and my alarm clock met with a fatal accident in the middle of the night, so I showed up straight for lab. Now, it's a first semester, first year lab, and I'm in my third year. I presume it was the very first lab for almost everyone else, but naturally I was a bit frustrated. We were looking at tissue samples under a microscope, and I was doing okay. Really, it seems to me that there's no good reason why I shouldn't get a perfect 100% score in this lab for once.
Except it seems they have difficulty announcing things in advance. Lab reports are usually handed in some time after the actual lab, but I had to hand my sketches in on the spot. This meant I couldn't check a book to make sure of the terminology. Sure, I'd read the background material, but it was nine pages, and I didn't know in advance what would be going on in the lab. Of course I didn't memorize the whole thing. I also didn't label my drawings as I was sketching them, because I wasn't totally sure what was what, and I wanted to consult a textbook or perhaps Google Images.
"Luckily" the drawings only account for 10% of the final lab grade, and of course this is only one lab out of nine, and so it turns out they kept us hunched over a microscope scribbling connective tissue for three hours, plus a half an hour after the lab was supposed to end, for this tiny fraction of a grade. I left pretty frustrated, actually. After that I got a coffee and headed home. Tonight I'm skipping pilates and going to a social gathering instead.
I still haven't found a research lab and it's making me constantly nervous.
Except it seems they have difficulty announcing things in advance. Lab reports are usually handed in some time after the actual lab, but I had to hand my sketches in on the spot. This meant I couldn't check a book to make sure of the terminology. Sure, I'd read the background material, but it was nine pages, and I didn't know in advance what would be going on in the lab. Of course I didn't memorize the whole thing. I also didn't label my drawings as I was sketching them, because I wasn't totally sure what was what, and I wanted to consult a textbook or perhaps Google Images.
"Luckily" the drawings only account for 10% of the final lab grade, and of course this is only one lab out of nine, and so it turns out they kept us hunched over a microscope scribbling connective tissue for three hours, plus a half an hour after the lab was supposed to end, for this tiny fraction of a grade. I left pretty frustrated, actually. After that I got a coffee and headed home. Tonight I'm skipping pilates and going to a social gathering instead.
I still haven't found a research lab and it's making me constantly nervous.
