What Do You Do During Slow Time in the Lab?

[NickMB]

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So you're waiting on your mice to be old enough to genotype, that kit you need isn't in yet, you're in between parts of your project, or you just started your project and all you have to do is fill out forms, edit protocols and wait for stuff to come in. What do you do? Read related research papers? Make stock solutions? Get a head start on that manuscript? Or, heavens forbid, take a day off?

 

[j-weezy]

So you're waiting on your mice to be old enough to genotype, that kit you need isn't in yet, you're in between parts of your project, or you just started your project and all you have to do is fill out forms, edit protocols and wait for stuff to come in. What do you do? Read related research papers? Make stock solutions? Get a head start on that manuscript? Or, heavens forbid, take a day off?

I go to class

 

[z786]

i study for the mcat

 

[JustAdocInBox]

bother other people in the lab who have real work to do

 

[QofQuimica]

So you're waiting on your mice to be old enough to genotype, that kit you need isn't in yet, you're in between parts of your project, or you just started your project and all you have to do is fill out forms, edit protocols and wait for stuff to come in. What do you do? Read related research papers? Make stock solutions? Get a head start on that manuscript? Or, heavens forbid, take a day off?

I'd surf SDN. How do you think I amassed this post count??? It sure hasn't been easy to post that much since I've been in med school! 😛

 

[Neuronix]

I have so many side projects I never finished/never will finish I'm never without something to work on... Sometimes they give me abstracts and one even yielded a publication so why not?

 

[j-weezy]

I have so many side projects I never finished/never will finish I'm never without something to work on... Sometimes they give me abstracts and one even yielded a publication so why not?

where's the corgi?

 

[Neuronix]

 

[jlamacc1]

So you're waiting on your mice to be old enough to genotype, that kit you need isn't in yet, you're in between parts of your project, or you just started your project and all you have to do is fill out forms, edit protocols and wait for stuff to come in. What do you do? Read related research papers? Make stock solutions? Get a head start on that manuscript? Or, heavens forbid, take a day off?

I drink a beer (or two) and take a nap! 😀

 

[jlamacc1]

...moreover, mice suck. Give me e. coli or give me death!

 

[NickMB]

...moreover, mice suck. Give me e. coli or give me death!

Mice don't suck! They suckle. On their mother's teet. Until it's time to test gene therapy....

 

[seraph524]

I go up to the clock and manually turn it forward.

 

[mercaptovizadeh]

So you're waiting on your mice to be old enough to genotype, that kit you need isn't in yet, you're in between parts of your project, or you just started your project and all you have to do is fill out forms, edit protocols and wait for stuff to come in. What do you do? Read related research papers? Make stock solutions? Get a head start on that manuscript? Or, heavens forbid, take a day off?

I sometimes go home early. You can pull this off if it's one day but not for half of the week.

But you can surf SDN, news websites, sports, etc. tacitly.

Also, there's usually some "housekeeping" you can do, like make some new solutions you're low on, autoclave things, etc.

Or just take in a textbook on your broader field of research (Kandel's Neural Science, for example), and read.

I dislike reading papers unless I have some exciting new result or am trying to figure out a way something can be tested - papers are wrapped up in minutiae, frequently contradict each other and just plain annoy me.

 

[Doctor&Geek]

Papers, papers, and more papers.

 

[seraph524]

lol...the Kandel neurobiology book isnt a textbook. It's a monolith. I heard that neuroscience students at Columbia learn everything in that book in one year in one class...

 

[NickMB]

lol...the Kandel neurobiology book isnt a textbook. It's a monolith. I heard that neuroscience students at Columbia learn everything in that book in one year in one class...

Cool! Neuroscience makes me all tingly in my nether regions! You don't even wanna know how much I love it .

I'm currently reading Neurophysiology by R. H. S. Carpenter and Manter and Gatz's Essentials of Clinical Neuroanatomy and Neurophysiology. Does anyone know how they compare?

 

[j-weezy]

Mice don't suck! They suckle. On their mother's teet. Until it's time to test gene therapy....

Cool! Neuroscience makes me all tingly in my nether regions! You don't even wanna know how much I love it .

You're kinda weird.








I guess that makes us besties.

 

[reine1jb]

i for some reason subjected myself to the torture of taking a grad level neuroscience class solely based off of Kandel's Principles of Neuroscience. Oh I love neuroscience but believe me, getting 32 chapters done in one semester with the prospect of having to do another 32 or so chapters makes you just want to throw the book out the window...which is a task in of itself because the book is the size of a small boulder.....

I sympathize with the columbia students....