LV : Last Semester of Undergrad - Week 9

So, apartment buildings are all new-looking, having been painted over with various colors of poop-- healthy dark brown poop, diarrhea light brown poop, normal in-between colored poop. Yeah, great color choices. And though this is an update during break (week 10), the inside hallways are not blue-colored anymore, they're orangey-brown colored. It's easy to see the dirtiness of the floors now, but ah well, I'm not going to complain about the landlord's choices.

Tuesday's microbiology lab surprised me with some cuteness:

The tiny agar dish! Just to show bacterial transformation, but isn't it CUTE?!

Anyway, highlight of the week was Wednesday's (3.10) tour around Baxter, a pharmaceutical manufacturing company. The LA one dealt with proteins in human plasma, so we learned about how those proteins were fractionated and what these fractions look like. I got to see the packaging part and the quality management part. The latter one was more interesting to me since that's where most of the chemistry happens. They had rooms titled Biochemistry, Chemistry, and other sciencey-names I forget (Microbiology might have been one of them). The people worked to determine the efficiency of the fractions. Something like that. And to make sure that there weren't any foreign contaminants that could be potentially dangerous. For this trip, I dressed up, but I only remembered pictures after the tour. So here I am, in the bathroom before going to Physio lab. With the jacket:

Without the jacket:

The rest of the week was spent in anticipation for SPRING BREAK, which is ending too quickly!