KVPY

I've FINALLY begun project work at school. Felt good to be there, pottering around in the labs just like I used to. The biotech lab has become so cool, I'm almost uncomfortable there. There are auto pipettes and cooling centrifuges and autoclavers (is that what they're called?) and spectrometres and incubators. whoa.

This is stuff I've never handled before, I've only seen demos. Hopefully the LAME project will come out looking REALLY GOOD.

Wierd: 2 kids walked into the lab and addressed me as "Ma'am"

Today was a bad day though. Some stupid kids screwed up BOTH the digital balances. So I was stuck having to measure stuff out using the physical balance, which sucks. The process, as any science student will inform you, is excruciatingly long and slow, without any guarantee that your results are accurate, because chances are some idiot has already fucked it up.

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I met VK a week back, when I first went to school. I walked into the lab, and he saw me and literally welcomed me with open arms. When I told him I was going to do MBBS, he almost shed tears. He was wiping his eyes. Maybe something was in them (?). I was happy that I'd made him happy though. He always seemed out of place among a bunch of underachieving students. Atleast when I failed his subject, I felt really bad for him.

He composed two lines for me, in hindi, which Im not going to reproduce here. I was so touched. I couldn't say much to him, I just ended up tongue tied. But I hope he understood how much it meant to me.

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