To everyone's surprise I spent a day in the lab the other day doing some actual real life research. I forgot how hard, slow and complicated that stuff is. It would probably not be a bad idea for supervisors to leave the office and spend a day doing some lab work occasionally. I certainly appreciate what the guys are doing more after that ordeal. During my brief lab exposure I was reminded of the common messy lab balance problem. It is almost more common to find the balance littered with chemicals, dirty spatulas etc. than in a clean and tidy state. Anyway, the guys in my lab have sorted this out. A panda seems to do the trick. D!
Good to see you posting again. Perhaps you could make it more regular by having your students write posts on stuff they're doing in the Lab.
ReplyDeleteThat's the nature of the beast. In the synthetic lab where I'm a grad student, we have a hard time keeping the lab clean, stuff just gets dirty so fast. . .
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