Day 1

For our first day, we began by finishing our setup in our new lab. I wasn't expecting to have my own desk let alone my own PC to use so that was a pleasant surprise. After Brad showed us how to use our new lab notebooks, we began to check the calibration of the pipets that we would be using the rest of the summer to see how accurate they were. I had the one defective P5000, but luckily Professor Sturgeon found another functional one lying around. For lunch, Brad took us out to Chinese, which was on him (Thank you Brad), and when we got back, we went into the lab and he taught us how to make a phosphate buffer of pH 7.4 which surprisingly came pretty easily thanks to Analyt (Thank you Audra) from last semester. I also learned how to use the nanopurifier which dispenses super pure water used for chemistry. After work, professor Sturgeon then invited us to his house for dinner. So far, this summer looks to be pretty interesting. I'm definitely looking forward to the rest of it.