Working in a lab is the best experience (outside of class) that I've had at Yale.

It's so much fun! Not at all like chem lab. It does not, for example, involve a full understanding of exactly what's going to happen. There's actually a sense of scientific discovery. I feel thrilled when microscopy images appear on the screen and I get to see how certain cells are interacting because I never know what to expect.

None of it feels tedious, either. Maybe that's because there aren't any pipet bulbs. I really abhor those blue little baloon thingies....they are so difficult to use with pipets. I've squandered so much time depressing and releasing those infuriating objects. In actual labs, they have little accujets--you press the up button to draw liquid up and the down button to push liquid back down.

Anyways, it's cool.

(If you want to hear the bad: on our first day, Rosh and I ruined the blazer of a grad student by spraying it with bleach--turning it from black to a pleasant pinkish color. Also, I couldn't use a micropippette.)