Cells, Cells, and More Cells

I can't believe that there are only two more weeks of SCORE left! It's been going by so quickly I can't believe that everything is almost over. Today one of the people I worked with from packaging last summer came into the bay to say hi to me. It was really nice to catch up with him and see how things have been going over the past year. I had plated cells over the weekend hoping that they would grow into colonies but when I got back on Monday cells had only grown on three out of my eight plates! I was so upset because this was something that I had done before and it had always worked fine for me. But Jennifer reassured me that it was okay when she told me that a lot of times she had also had troubles getting these specific cells to work during mutagenesis. I really thought that I had finally gotten the hang of everything that I had to do around here. All I could do was plate more cells and hope that tomorrow I would see better results!