Innocence of a budding researcher

Everyday in the lab, I work with buffer preparations, making reagents and doing animal sacrifice. It's been 9 years for me as a researcher. But recently I remembered “THE DISCOVERY OF EPPENDORF USAGE”.

So here how the story goes.
I was in the first year of BSc (in Biotechnology), very enthusiastic to carry out biology lab practicals..I was very excited for our DNA isolation. I studied so hard about its structure. I mugged up the structure and drew thousands of times to remember. And finally the D-Day comes. First time my lecturer showed me how exactly the plant DNA looks like. AGGGHHHH….I was very disappointed. It wasn’t the double helical structure which we studied ..it was nothing like what I imagined...I couldn’t see any bases (ATGC)…or phosphates. It was just a white slimy material. Since I was always sitting in the front row, I was called to bring “EPPENDORF”. I had no idea what was it (during those days I was blank but now I used routinely).
I was already disappointed, on top of that, asking me to bring something which I never saw before. I couldn’t get for her. While leaving the lab I wanted to see what was that plastic ware.
I saw it and I was like ..IIISSHHH this small thing..but somehow I felt I have better application of EPPENDORF usage. I took two of those and added ink into it (SINCE I WAS USING INK PENS THOSE DAYS). It was a good application of it. But eventually I learned the real usage of it.
Now I feel so funny remembering all those incidents.
In my next post, I will tell you the story of ANDE KA FUNDA (why and how egg shape matters).

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