Life in a Virology Lab...

Hmm, this depends on the perspective on which you see it. Is a virus even considered life? This is debatable. Imagining the virus to be a conscious 'thinking, feeling, thing'... and taking the concept of 'life' even further... Life in a virology lab must be quite terrifying if you ask me. Short. Constantly being probed by scientists. Destroyed. Confined to the space within a flask. For the scientist though, it is interesting. Learning to work modified DNA into bacteria for replication is very alluring to say the least.

New Year's Resolution of a Labster

Ok so last semester was definitely not my best.  I could outline my frustrations here but that would take too long and you have probably heard me say something to that effect at one point or another recently.

I know it's a little cliché to talk about new beginnings and blah, blah, blah at the first of the new year but I'm gonna do it anyway.  I have a very simple goal and it is this: I may not be the subject matter expert now, but I will get one step closer.  Although I think this will be my motto for the next several years, I wanted to share it here.  So if you feel like you've been in a rut or that things aren't going exactly the way you envisioned them going, just get one step closer.  Even if that one step is a baby step, you'll eventually get there.