I really really miss my itouch. 80% of what I miss in the calendar ap. My life is so dis organized with out it 
I'm a bit behind on up dating you all about what I have been up to. Been out to the field a couple of times. The first was to collect kissing bugs.It was a huge success, we caught 60 in one...
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I'm a bit behind on up dating you all about what I have been up to. Been out to the field a couple of times. The first was to collect kissing bugs.It was a huge success, we caught 60 in one...
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h00ts:
That is a really cool job. Thanks for helping to keep us safe!
why no one but scientists hang out with other scientists:
Examples from the Texas A&M Disease Ecology Lab :
Setting: Lab meeting-
zoonotic disease PhD:"Up date us on what's going on with you"
Entomology Grad student: " ....and I became an aunt! (every one cheers) He was very premature but he's doing great now. HE POOPED TODAY for the FIRST TIME" (Every one cheers even...
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Examples from the Texas A&M Disease Ecology Lab :
Setting: Lab meeting-
zoonotic disease PhD:"Up date us on what's going on with you"
Entomology Grad student: " ....and I became an aunt! (every one cheers) He was very premature but he's doing great now. HE POOPED TODAY for the FIRST TIME" (Every one cheers even...
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jweb:
Actually, I love collecting insects!
fbprince:
And you have not mentionned evolutionary biologists talking about sexual selection...
So I have been getting a lot done in the lab but I still feel like I'm behind. This is my 4th weekend here and I haven't even started on getting results. I have about 140 dissections under my belt so I'm prob the most experienced kissing bug dissectors at Texas A&M lol. Spent all of Saturday there and have a nasty burn on my...
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fbprince:
"Nothing but lab coat"
Hey, that's not allowed in labs!! Where are the long pants and the shoes???
Hey, that's not allowed in labs!! Where are the long pants and the shoes???
higgs:
I think engineering labs are different than bio labs
SO I decided to give up on the journal style blog thing. I would like to keep up with it but I'm SO FUCKING BUSY. We caught way too many bugs (340 so far) and still have more coming in. I have to ID them to species using a key from the 70s (anyone who has ever used a key will feel my pain on...
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surreal______:
Best of luck hun.
badbilly:
You will get it done. Just keep your eyes relaxed and make sure your back brain is occupied while you do the little stuff. 
First full day off since I arrived. Feels good to just relax and get mundane life stuff taken care of. I cleaned up the dorm room and had my phone number transferred over to Bens old phone. I think I will stick with it until it dies on me or I lose it. No point in getting something new when I'm way to hard on...
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eweytx:
Glad you had a day to recharge!
skidtography:
Let me know when your back and we can shoot another set
Went to the lab even though it was Saturday. Shadowed Rachel for a few hour. She showed me how to start the PCR. First the sample a lyced to make the DNA available. Then the sample is run through a filter a couple of times to remove the dna from the rest of the sample. Then the DNA is washed off of the filter. That...
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persephone:
I'm doing PCR today, still getting the hang of it 
higgs:
I still have a lot of documentation and dissection to do before really getting into the PCR work but I'm going to be a champ at it by the time I leave. 300+ for my project plus quite a few for practice.
the 7th we had out first mostly full lab day. We arrived at the lab just before 9am and had enough time before our BSL 2 lab training to learn how to sort some mosquitoes for the westnile mosquito tracking project. I will be helping out with that project whenever I'm waiting for my DNA processing stuff to go through. After the safety training we...
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I fell behind on my journal writing but I should manage to hit the highlights of the last few days. On the 5th we had a campus tour. There are a lot of things I like about this school so much so that I was thinking about applying to gradschool here. After the tour I'm starting to think that there are too many not me...
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wolfvillage:
From what I remember when I briefly thought about joining the corp of cadets is that its like a jumping off point for military service. Certain degrees would go to certain branches of the military and after college the cadets would Be a commissioned officer rather than just enlisting. Like in my case I was going for civil engineering and would have been steered towards the army corp of engineering after graduation.
badbilly:
Really coincidental that they knew your size of t-shirt...
How do you sort mosquitoes?
How do you sort mosquitoes?
Day 2 REU
What a long day. First thing in the morning we had our quiz. We did it in teams and my team fucking rocked it. We had 70 points when the other teams had 20 and -10. They thought it was funny that we got all anxious about a test that they turned in to a game. I was not nearly as amused....
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What a long day. First thing in the morning we had our quiz. We did it in teams and my team fucking rocked it. We had 70 points when the other teams had 20 and -10. They thought it was funny that we got all anxious about a test that they turned in to a game. I was not nearly as amused....
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eweytx:
The research projects sound very interesting!
wolfvillage:
Holy crap you walked all the way to Bryan from campus O_o
They decided to overwhelm us the very first day. We haven't even seen our labs yet and we are all ready being harped on about how the summer is short and how we don't have much time. One prof even said that if we haven't read everything sent to us we are all ready behind. Then they turn a 180 and tell us about all...
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abjabber:
Sounds stressful! Reminds me of why I dropped out of school. 
Good luck and take care. 
Good luck and take care.