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Great times with friends
Throughout my time here at JMU I feel extremely lucky to have met the people that I have. All my friends are truly genuine. Freshman year I lived in Hillside which is a dorm located on campus. My roommate and I got along great as well as the rest of the girls on my hall. We all try to get together once in a while to catch up on things that have been going on. This past weekend some of my friends drove down to celebrate another one of my friend's birthday. It turned out to be an awesome weekend. We barbequed all day long and did not have to worry about a thing such as school work.
Monday I had to return to working in the lab. My partner and I continued to work on a previous project that we started and stopped working on a few weeks ago. The reason we stopped working on it was because our protein had turned out to be insoluble. We were not the only group with this problem, many other encountered insoluble proteins. Because of this, my professor, Dr. Raab, held a meeting where we collaborated and formulated another game plan on how to attack this protein. We came up with the idea of developing a new vector that we would insert our genes of interest. Some students in the past had a lot of luck with this technique. The only problem is that we have to wait for our professor to develope this vector. My partner and I were able to leave the lab very early yesterday and go to the pool because the vector was not available yet. I'm kind of hoping the same thing will happen today because it's suppose to be in the low 90's today and I would absolutely just love to go sit by the pool… but I guess we will just have to wait and see.
Tomorrow I am driving back to Jersey so I can work at my restaurant as well as spend Father's Day with my dad! It will be very nice to be home for the weekend, though I will probably be spending more time at the restaurant than I do at my own house. Oh well, I'm broke and need the money ...lol
Posted by Kristen on June 14, 2005 10:24 AM | Link | Email Kristen
