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Tuesday, October 04, 2005

Carpe Diem: Cesium the Day

It has been no secret that I have been looking for a more scientific job, so that I can quit painting houses. Fortunately, one of my friends mentioned to me the other day that there was an unannounced opening at Arcadia BioSciences. I later found out that he is the head of the department there, which probably explains how I made it through two groups of interviewers and a constant rain of questions, despite the fact that I have very limited lab experience in molecular biology!

So, as of Monday, I will be testing out new protocols for DNA extraction of plant tissues, and building a cDNA library of the tomato plant genome. Admittedly, botany is not my favorite subject, but this project is actually pretty interesting! My internship is slated to run for 4 months...

3 Comments:

Blogger Jerid said...

Now, since this is the most important part: does it come with monetary benefits ?

9:09 PM  
Blogger The Last Punslinger said...

Yeah, I get to see my buddy Alexander Hamiliton once an hour.

9:22 PM  
Blogger Amanda Swann said...

Congrats! Sounds like it is more in the line of work you are craving rather than painting houses. Hope you enjoy.

10:16 PM  

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