I don't know about you, but for me the pandemic was a remarkably uninspiring time. That, and a bunch of other pandemic things that simply will go unmentioned for the purposes of this commentary.
So I found myself lugubriously lost as to how to spend the summer of 2021. I wanted an adventure. So I proposed working in a friendly acquaintance's biology lab for free (free because he was broke, and I was useless). I was a complete garbage novice at biology. It wasn't clear that this time spent would yield dividends for my career, and as I already mentioned, it wasn't remunerative in any direct senses of the word.
So there I was for the summer of 2021, a garbage novice shoveling garbage E. coli LB plates into the garbage can (because I was a garbage novice, the plates were garbage because I forgot the simple step of adding antibiotic, hence losing 1.5 weeks' worth of work).
But honestly, it was so much fun hanging out and learning from my friendly acquaintance turned friend turned one of my best friends. We made ham sandwiches using bread and meat from the cheap deli next door (I got addicted to balsamic vinegar) and discussed world affairs over salt baked chicken and rice at the cheap Chinese restaurant next door.
2.5 months' labor at a rousing compensation of $0, and I made a best friend. Not a bad deal. Decent yield to the bet.
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