Monday, July 16, 2007
Friday, July 6, 2007
Last Adventure
FELLOW INTERNS!!!!!
It seems that there is only one more day left before this program is officially over!!! (so sad... tears) So I'm thinking that we all need to do something before we all totally loose contact with one another when we go our separate ways. Although we have become an extremely tight knit family of simese nonuplet (like twins... only there are nine...), we will all get too busy or too preocupied by the never ending stress of life to hang out as a group ONE last time. (lol) I don't know what would be the most awesome thing to do, but I'm sure we can come to an agreement about something. I was thinking like Laser Tag at Funtasticks or what not. We can even go to the movies if you guys want to. We're getting Shrek 3 and Spiderman 3 this Friday and we have like tons of other movies too, but whatever. Ok, just leave some comments on what you guys think.
It seems that there is only one more day left before this program is officially over!!! (so sad... tears) So I'm thinking that we all need to do something before we all totally loose contact with one another when we go our separate ways. Although we have become an extremely tight knit family of simese nonuplet (like twins... only there are nine...), we will all get too busy or too preocupied by the never ending stress of life to hang out as a group ONE last time. (lol) I don't know what would be the most awesome thing to do, but I'm sure we can come to an agreement about something. I was thinking like Laser Tag at Funtasticks or what not. We can even go to the movies if you guys want to. We're getting Shrek 3 and Spiderman 3 this Friday and we have like tons of other movies too, but whatever. Ok, just leave some comments on what you guys think.
Posters
- Please be sure to check the instructions about the post I wrote on June 27
- Shiana and I have worked out some ideas for the titles.
- Combine the name of your research with the idea that this was a high school internship
- Example:
- Mutagenesis of Peroxiredoxin III to Determine its Function; A High School Internship
- Acknowledge the various people who have influenced your summer and note the aspect of the University that have supported you (you will have a different college -which will be a 3)
- Example:
- Shiana Ferng1-2, Ruiyu Xie2, Terrence J. Monks2, Serrine S. Lau2, Marti Lindsey2, Kevin Hall1
- BIO5 Institute1, Southwest Environmental Health Sciences (SWEHSC)2, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology2, College of Pharmacy2
- Financially the internship was provided by the:
- Outreach Core of the Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center (NIEHS P30 6694) The HOPE Partnerhsip (NCRR RR018490), and the BIO5 Institute (K-12 Science Education Outreach Funds)
- I look forward to seeing the final version of your abstracts.
Marti
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Andrew: Week 5
So I have not posted anything lately...it is a little awkward but I needed my time away from the computer haha. An update on the social events that happened recently. So, things with Mon-Ning and LBD are getting situated. By the way, they are engaged. All of us will attend that wedding just to let you know. Intern Survivor....week 6-7 are updated. So the final week is taking place. AAH!! This is my last week here in the lab...I am so sad to not be here next week (with the exception of journal club and poster presentation)! I have many active missions, but only one has been accomplished.
Here they are:
Mission Talk-to-LBD
Mission Friend Probation
Mission Social Butterflies (accomplished)
Anyway, at the lab, things are pretty routine. My other mentor Shawn is back from his honeymoon and he is jsut trying to get back into the swing of things. So basically, this week is a poster prep week along with feeding some cells. The only event that took place in the lab was the feeding of the UROtsa cells. I feel like I am starting to get that routine in my brain now. Get to work and feed the cells! It is so joyful...sometimes I even talk to the cells? JK JK that would be so weird. I am trying to be humorous but it's always weird! My poster has been very fun for me. I am having such a good time making it! I can't wait to show it off! hahahahahahha but I know we will all do well on July 13th!
PS- I will blog everyday from camp when I am not here! Keep in touch.
~A. Vo
(End)
Here they are:
Mission Talk-to-LBD
Mission Friend Probation
Mission Social Butterflies (accomplished)
Anyway, at the lab, things are pretty routine. My other mentor Shawn is back from his honeymoon and he is jsut trying to get back into the swing of things. So basically, this week is a poster prep week along with feeding some cells. The only event that took place in the lab was the feeding of the UROtsa cells. I feel like I am starting to get that routine in my brain now. Get to work and feed the cells! It is so joyful...sometimes I even talk to the cells? JK JK that would be so weird. I am trying to be humorous but it's always weird! My poster has been very fun for me. I am having such a good time making it! I can't wait to show it off! hahahahahahha but I know we will all do well on July 13th!
PS- I will blog everyday from camp when I am not here! Keep in touch.
~A. Vo
(End)
Monday, July 2, 2007
Monday: Starting the 5th Week!
Two weeks until the internship is over?! Wow...I must not be paying very much attention to time. Boy, I'm tired, admittedly. I need my caffeine. I really do need it. Either that or some sleep. Actually, eight hours is too much for me, and I got burnt out really easily. SO...I'm going to work six hours, and take a one-hour break. This'll mean less time on the computer, but I'll be actually better off. Anyway, I'm just tired. I need to wake up with some energy pills or something.
Moving on...Patti and I are actually processing embryos. That's really neat. It's mainly bathing the embryos in various degrees of solution. It's all good and stuff. They are E9.5 and E10.5 embryos, so it's all good. Patti has to process an embryo that is about E18.5 days old, and it's the size of an individual soybean, so it'll take a while for her. She admitted it herself.
Anyway, the problem wasn't really the procedure, but mainly the waiting. I hate waiting. It's like a really long moment of suspense. I dunno. I just think it's a pain. Fortunately, I am kept busy with a bunch of other stuff, such as writing my abstract, doing menial chores for them, reading the Far Side, and a bunch of other stuff. Speaking of which, I hope I can finish my poster. I have to figure out what to write about, though. It's very important that I prioritize my assignments. It'll keep me from short-circuiting.
Fortunately, I finished my abstract. It was revised by a lot of people, mainly the majority of the Camenisch lab. Mark read it and made a few changes, as well as Dr. Camenisch. I have to get started on some other stuff, then, such as the introduction, materials and methods, discussion, references, and conclusion parts. Hopefully, it'll be done.
Tomorrow, Patti is planning to take me to another lab, where she will embed the embryos and help some people cut their embryos. I guess cutting is difficult.
Moving on...Patti and I are actually processing embryos. That's really neat. It's mainly bathing the embryos in various degrees of solution. It's all good and stuff. They are E9.5 and E10.5 embryos, so it's all good. Patti has to process an embryo that is about E18.5 days old, and it's the size of an individual soybean, so it'll take a while for her. She admitted it herself.
Anyway, the problem wasn't really the procedure, but mainly the waiting. I hate waiting. It's like a really long moment of suspense. I dunno. I just think it's a pain. Fortunately, I am kept busy with a bunch of other stuff, such as writing my abstract, doing menial chores for them, reading the Far Side, and a bunch of other stuff. Speaking of which, I hope I can finish my poster. I have to figure out what to write about, though. It's very important that I prioritize my assignments. It'll keep me from short-circuiting.
Fortunately, I finished my abstract. It was revised by a lot of people, mainly the majority of the Camenisch lab. Mark read it and made a few changes, as well as Dr. Camenisch. I have to get started on some other stuff, then, such as the introduction, materials and methods, discussion, references, and conclusion parts. Hopefully, it'll be done.
Tomorrow, Patti is planning to take me to another lab, where she will embed the embryos and help some people cut their embryos. I guess cutting is difficult.
Friday, June 29, 2007
The rest of the week!
Everything was very busy after Journal Club. First, there was InDesign training, which was three hours of actually exploring the program and its workings and then studying. After InDesign training, I resided in the library, reading some more articles and getting some stuff done. I really needed to get work done on the abstract. Mark sent his revision to me and I continuously wrote, and wrote....and...yeah, I wrote. I'm started to get cramps from writing and typing so much.
On Thursday, I woke up late, rushed my ride to the College of Pharmacy, and performed a repeat trial on the Has2 and Erb2 PCR reactions. Derrick stated that the previous reaction didn't turn out as well as he expected. I finished the abstract, and then did a bunch of chores for them, such as picking up packages, washing dishes, etc. It's all part of the job, I figure. I do learn a lot. We also ram a gel, and it came out pretty well.
On Friday, there wasn't really much planned for me, especially since I was leaving early, around noon, for a bunch of personal appointments. Derrick and I then analyzed the gel we ran the day before.
On Thursday, I woke up late, rushed my ride to the College of Pharmacy, and performed a repeat trial on the Has2 and Erb2 PCR reactions. Derrick stated that the previous reaction didn't turn out as well as he expected. I finished the abstract, and then did a bunch of chores for them, such as picking up packages, washing dishes, etc. It's all part of the job, I figure. I do learn a lot. We also ram a gel, and it came out pretty well.
On Friday, there wasn't really much planned for me, especially since I was leaving early, around noon, for a bunch of personal appointments. Derrick and I then analyzed the gel we ran the day before.
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Hello Everyone
Hey today was a really intresting day!!! hahaha
good job Shiana!!!
oh yeah mon-ning try to post those pix's!!!
cool well i'll see you all tommorow
oh yeah and ill get pixs of the rest of you guys later tommorow!!
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