Getting to Know Them
As I sit here in front of a Linux Red Hat desktop, while waiting for my SDS-PAGE gels to finish, I realize something, HHMI is not just about research and long hours toiling in lab. It’s about getting to know your neighbors and fellow fellows. For instance, we all come from different backgrounds and different states, but we can still manage to cook something that suites everyone’s liking. Veggies for the vegans and meat for those carnivores.
There’s a story behind this.
So last Saturday, our cooking group (me, Upom, Sidney, Lulit, Wendy) decided to invest in a two-and-a-half hour roadtrip to Carowinds. If you don’t know, Carowinds is an amusement park with 14 or so rollercoasters that straddles the border between North and South Carolina. But, the thing is…I don’t really like to ride rollercoasters. See, I’m more of a bumper-car and mine-train type of guy. So when Upom and Sidney decided to drag me to just about every coaster they could find, you can imagine my fear and dread.
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Rollercoasters are fun.
After Carowinds and on the ride home, I tried to fight past my disorientation and thought about our trip. Yeah, the trip was long and there were random discussions about physics, but overall, it was a great way to get to know the group. We cook together, eat together, and learn together, but only at a theme park do you truly get to know someone.
Now back to SDS-PAGE.