Petri Eyes!

I’m changing my project. It has been said that a poem is never finished, only abandoned. This is also true in biology. A project is never finished, only abandoned. So, perhaps to be most precise (my favorite thing) I am abandoning my project. And since this here blog has suffered the same screeching, halting death, I’m changing my approach to it as well.

As a budding scientist, I read and write a lot about the experiments, data, conclusions and other vocabulary words having to do with science literature. Well, ok, let’s be honest, I think a lot about reading and writing science literature, then I procrastinate about it, then I get anxiety about my upcoming proposal or outline or what have you, then I do a token amount of reading and writing. However, the proportion of time spent in my day considering, recording, designing, and executing experiments is huge. So then, when I have a free moment to sit down at my blog, the idea of considering, recording, designing or executing anything with real scientific merit kind of makes me want to shove a pipet into an important artery or arteriole.

The conclusion then, should be self-evident. Aside from an occasional post about some shiny new science that overwhelms my violent pipet fantasies, this blog is hereby dedicated to the less scientific side of cell biology. The trials, tribulations, triumphs (and alliteration) of having an undergraduate to “mentor”, for example.