In Your Honour - Week Two

Details start to get hazy here. I can’t remember specifically what got done.

Monday
Take ultrasound photos back to the doctor – What’s this lump on my foot?

Tuesday
Meeting day. All the same meetings as I had last week and an extra special bonus this time a presentation and writing skills presentation. Admittedly, it was given by one of my heroes, John McKenzie who was Dean of Science last year and has since been promoted.

Wednesday
I attend a session on risk assessment training that it turns out I didn’t need to go to. That was the world’s biggest waste of time.

Thursday
Chemical management training. We get shown a whole bunch of dangerous things and get told

“don’t.”

I also get a silly photo taken to stick up on the wall in the department outside the main office.

Friday
The Bio21 symposium. Everyone in the building got together and gave a little presentation on what they spend their days doing. Then they get asked questions. The questions often, to me, seemed to be “Why don’t you do experiment X?” coming from a scientist that spends all his or her time doing experiment X.

I worked the displays to get free samples, pens and post-it notes from all the scientific supply companies. It turns out Invitrogen pens are just the greatest things in the world.

Also, in the morning is the applied pests meeting.

That sucked.

The whole thing was studying insects from a very different angle from us. I don’t think the guy even said the word “gene.”