What's wrong with my hands? I don't know. I just knew they had been doing silly mistakes and resulting in screwing all the experiments I was doing yesterday.It was a terrible day for me yesterday. Never in my entire lab rat days did I ever make a very basic simple mistake before. Can you imagine putting the catode and anode wires wrongly on the machine resulting the gel running in the wrong direction and hence lost my samples? Yep, that happened to me yesterday. It was the first thing when you entered a molecular lab, your senior would tell you this basic rule and you would remember since. I did not make this mistake when I was a newbie but I so not believe that it happened to me when I was in my 3rd year of a doctorate degree! Anyway, it was too late to saviour the samples. I just had to redo the whole experiment.
That was not it. The cells that I have been working were all contaminated. And I was from a microbiology background where sterile technique was a must in my early days of training. Most importantly my work schedule is now delayed because of this. Oh well.
There were more silly mistakes I made throughout the whole day. I was really exhausted about all these in the beginning. But towards the end of the day, it just slowly sank in. It was just not the day. And if everyone is meant to make some silly mistakes, then at least I am glad that it happened now than later. I would be more upset if I make this type of mistake when I am teaching someone later on in my career. Think of it that way makes me feel a lot better.
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