Today began with two classes, ten minutes apart, on plant biochemistry and crop ecology, respectively, both of which covered photosynthesis. That was three hours of photosynthesis, which is a lot of repetitive information if you happen to be a plant biology major. However, since there are only about twenty of us in existence here, the classes are mostly targeted toward molecular bio majors and crop science & management majors. We plant people are sort of tagging along, regardless of what the classes may be listed under.
Our ecology professor spent a few minutes this morning informing us that no, he's not trying to be abusive, he's trying to be challenging, really. I forgive him for problem set #2, but that's mostly because he calls Avogadro's number "avocado's number" and sings "rubisco" as a jingle.
I started two pots of chives in my room, which I've decided to take one picture every week of, as a sort of visual progress report.
Made more solvent-buffer type things today, and autoclaved stuff (Clare was right, you really do autoclave practically EVERYTHING that's autoclave-safe). Now must go back to lab notebook, any one of them, but before I do I'd like to share this poem I found, called "The Rose Family" (Rosaceae), by Robert Frost (and you can't NOT like a poet who's got his plants right):
The rose is a rose,
And was always a rose.
But the theory now goes
That the apple's a rose,
And the pear is, and so's
The plum, I suppose.
The dear only know
What will next prove a rose.
You, of course, are a rose--
But were always a rose.
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