A series of emotions in Module 1

Emotion 1: Terror

"Wet lab? What's that?????????"

As someone who's only experience with wet lab before this class was small bursts of tissue culture work, the concept of pipetting on a biweekly basis utterly terrified me. To add to that, navigating how to write figure captions, an abstract, and concise results summary was completely foreign and daunting. 

Emotion 2: Anxiety

Most of my "scientific writing" in the past has been oriented around public policy and clinical studies, where the more wordy and convoluted your paper sounds, the better. After getting my first few assignments back with a long list of comments from Noreen, the sound of my nervous laughter has definitely become associated with this class. This feedback, regardless of how stressful it is to read, has really helped me develop over the course of this module. Writing concise figure titles and captions has become (almost) second nature to me, and I've been able to find ways to highlight important aspects of the research we are conducting. 

Emotion 3: Panic

When our team (WOOOO GREY TEAM LETS GO) was working on the Mod 1 Data Summary Draft we found it interesting to see how the feedback we had received in the past regarding crafting abstracts, figures, topic sentences, and a high impact conclusion all came together. While it did take us a LONG time for this draft and we were scouring our paper for edits until the very last hour, it was nice to see how everything came together and step back to see the progress we made in the module.

Emotion 4: Satisfaction

So despite the ups and down of this module (lol when our DSF data initially looked like a seismograph), it was a great experience that really ingrained writing and communication skills into our brains.

Here's me the first few days of 20.109:



In reference to our DSF data that was initially wildly wrong (we got the wrong export from the machine) that then turned into very significant, beautiful results. :')


Also bonus feature, actual footage of me after recording my mini presentation for Mod 1 for the 10000th time:






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