Today I was with Seung Ha again. Starting next week, I will go with my mentor on Tuesdays. So, when we arrived, her mentor left us a note saying that he had a class until 2pm and to read the packets that he provided. So Seung Ha and I walked to the library to read the packets there. But we got lost on both the way there and the way back. Quite the experience. Anyways, not too much happened today. We were still mostly learning basic skills and going over the introduction to the lab. We learned about stoichiometry and when the conversions will need to be made. Sometime around 3pm, my mentor, Kellin, showed up for a little while just to check in before heading to his next class. Then, we made nanoparticles. We pipetted water with the polymer and DNA. Afterwards, we put the mixture into a machine that shoots light through the mixture and determines the size of the particles. The size of the particles matter because the cell only takes in nanoparticles when they are a certain size. But before each of these processes, there was some waiting time. In the meantime, we watched her mentor perform an experiment that he needed to do for class. He explained his project to us, but it was still hard to understand what he was doing. This was about all we did today.
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