Anyways, I learned a lot of stuff this summer. I was reading over my first blog and I was really nervous and stressed about being in the MRI lab because I haven't had chemistry in school yet. But this was actually the greatest intro to chem I could have experienced and now I know I will be sooooooooo prepared for it this year!
Obviously, I learned a lot about MRI, contrast agents, Omniscan, and Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis. So here is some general stuff I have taken from the internship:
- Wednesday Undergrad Seminar= free lunch
- Free lunch= delicious
- Be on time
- Joe Pow is not as scary as you think
- Carpool
- If you and all the interns behave, you will get a limo bus
- Practice your presentations
- Figure out all the shortcuts to get to places at RIT
- If you got Crossroads, get the spicy chicken sub
- If you go to Java Wallie's, get the Kinky Ragea
- Be nice to the people at the stock room, or else
- Breaking a cuvett is not a big of a deal as you think
- Make your presentation simple so normal people can understand
- Look at the map before you try to find a building
- Realize some of the computers in the Chem department are 10 minutes behind real time
- Listen to Dr. Hornak; the man is a genius
- Eat with other interns after field trips
- Never say you like physics while in the Chemistry department
- Remember to clock back in after lunch
- Get your work done
- Don't put more than one Nanotube in the NMR at once
- Get contacts if you want to participate in visual perception experiments
- Be happy you have a job at RIT and you are making money; its probably better than going back to school
Well I just wrote a lot of random stuff! But that was all I could think of right now...
So i guess I will just stop writing now. Maybe I'll update this later this year let you know how senior year is going! (or where I'm going to college)
Okey dokey then. Ta Ta for Now.
;) Gretchen E. S.
