Hi all, I don’t have too much to report this week. I only made it into the lab two days this week Monday and today (Thursday). I had a family emergency come up early Tuesday morning that kept me from coming into the lab on Tuesday and Wednesday. Besides working on the research rough draft I collected all my data from my notebook so far and made a excel spreadsheet. Below is just a glimpse of the finished spreadsheet. I couldn’t fit the whole spreadsheet into the print screen but the final spreadsheet has all twenty yogurt/dairy products on it and the tests done. The count of the tests done so far is eight however not all the tests were done to each product.

One thing after another……..feeling the pressure.

Last week was a very busy week for me. I had two test one in biology and the other in chemistry. So I did not post a blog or do the discussion bored. To top it off I had to start out this week with a test in math…..grrrrr! As the week went by one thing after another kept popping up adding more items that I need to take care of like the reapplication for the S-STEM program for fall 2014, the rough draft for the research paper, and let’s not forget the conferences at Metro Tech and Estrella Mountain. Speaking about the conferences I am starting to get a little worried because I am not getting the results I need to wrap up my research. I am either getting no growth or too much growth I cannot count. I hoping that I can get a count on all the yogurts by the end of next week fingers cross. I will be heading into the lab tomorrow to make a whole bunch of TSA plates so I can finish getting the results I need so I can move on to the next step.

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Brand new yogurts yea!!!

Hello all, I hope everyone had a wonderful relaxing spring break. I know the last time I blogged before spring break I said I had a game plan which I did. However once I got into the lab on Monday I was stopped in my tracks due to all my yogurts and dairy products being out of date (expired). I had to make a shopping list of all eleven dairy products for Matt. It took a few days but Matt came through with a whole bunch of yogurts and dairy products. To be precise he came through with eighteen yogurts/dairy products; the refrigerator is full to the max. I have to wait until next week to dive into all these new products I cannot wait to start. With that many products I will be dividing them up into five groups; below are pictures of the groups I have divided them up in.

Time to take a break and recharge

I don’t know about all of you but I am very glad that next week is spring break. I plan on spending my getting caught up/head on homework, getting caught up on house hold chores I have been putting off and taking the time to really relax so I can come back recharge ready to hit the ground running. Since next week I won’t be in the lab I took time this week to wrap up what I was working on which was trying to get a count of growth from the yogurts I am working with. Out of the eleven products of yogurt I’m working with I only successfully got four of the products to where I can actually count the number of growth. Everything else has come back either blank, contaminated, or too numerous to count. I cleaned out the incubator of all my trails and error plate and made more TSA media so when I come back I can jump right into what I need to do. I also came up with a list of what I have to work on still and with any luck I can get most of that list finish the week we come back from spring break. Well I hope you all have a great and safe spring break see you all when we get back.

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Writing Time

So this week has been spent playing catch up in both my classes and in the bioscience lab. I don’t have much to report this week aside from working on my abstract for the student conference at Estrella Mountain; I redid four of the yogurts because when I did them in the first place I mixed up the amount of yogurt that was supposed to go into the solution. With getting over being sick I didn’t make it to the field trip last Friday to the World Wildlife Zoo. I was really bummed I couldn’t make it but I was right in my decision to stay home and rest up. I look forward to seeing everyone’s blog that got to go and took pictures. Have a good weekend all!!!

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Sour throat, runny nose, and cough oh my........

Howdy all, well today is my first day back in the lab this week. I was unable to come in because I caught a cold bug over this past weekend. I woke-up Saturday morning with a sore throat and a mild cough, by Sunday morning I could add a runny nose to the list of symptoms I had. I knew I had to take some time to rest when I couldn’t stay asleep Sunday night because I kept on coughing. Waking-up Monday was the worst; Tuesday was a little better but I decided I better not chance it and go to school. I am feeling better than I did this past weekend but I still have a cough that is still lingering. Upon arriving in the lab today I found out that I made a mistake while diluting some of the yogurts last week. I changed the peptone water to 90mL from 99mL with making this changes I over looked changing the yogurt amount from 1mL to 10mL (99mL of peptone water with 1mL of yogurt and 90mL of peptone water with 10mL of yogurt). This is something I’ll be mixing next week. Since I only made it in one day this week I wasn’t able to make another batch of TSA media, so I don’t have any pictures to post. However, I did take a picture of the already finished TSA plates I did last week (posted blow).

A week of studying and trying something new.

Howdy all!! Who else is ready for the three day weekend coming up? I know I am, this week has been packed with studying for tests in both BIO 182 and CHM130. I also finished up diluting the rest of the yogurt products I had not gotten to last week. The pretty cool thing I did this week in lab was learned how to make TSA plates. I was using so much in my project with the yogurt Josh had me make my only plates. I totally forgot to take pictures when I was doing it, however I am going to be make another batch of plates come this Tuesday so I will make sure to take plenty of pictures. Have a great weekend everyone.

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