Student Research at Duke

Myth #1: Scientists are crazed workhorses

I mentioned before that I had (still have?) a pretty skewed idea of what “lab life” is like…but today, I realized something monumental: scientists don’t work all the time, 24/7. There IS such a thing as “down time” (thank god!). No one is expected to survive 7 straight hours of micropipetting (unless you have ridiculous forearm muscles).

So to honor my downtime, I snapped some pictures of the Yoder lab. The lab is bright and shiny and brand new; they just relocated this past February. Hopefully I won’t break anything new and expensive in the next eight weeks…

Entrance to the Yoder Lab

a pretty nifty lab bench

the conference room (notice the flowers in the flask…scientists are crafty, too!)

…and my best attempt at a self portrait with some gels

Back to work!

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