Recap
LS3 lecture was pretty tedious today; I had trouble staying awake but it wasn’t necessarily the teacher’s fault. The problem is that I’ve already covered the material back when I was in AP Bio in high school. Professor Silver is decent, but it’s tough for me to pay attention when I’ve already read the assigned pages and had the stuff in high school.
Lab was pretty arduous today as well. We did gel electrophoresis and plasmid purification. I’ve dealt with agarose gels before back in AP Bio so the lab was as boring as the lecture. To top it off, my TA was sick and lab just wasn’t the same, since Pierre is a funny, energetic guy. I got through it though.
Afterwards, I went to Whole Foods and then Mongol’s, where I had a late but massive 4:30 feast. I got the UCLA special and piled on the noodles. The food was excellent as usual. Afterwards, I stopped by Ralph’s and picked up some deli meat, a fat block of Tillamook cheese, and Breyer’s ice cream that was on sale.
Then I came back to the apartment, hit the LS3 lecture notes and study questions, and burned Zaylin a few CDs.
All in all, an okay day that got better as the day went on. Tomorrrow I’m going to pop by the Jacobsen lab and start mutagenesis, which should be fun.