Wednesday, December 1, 2010

At work

this is close to harvard medical school, but i dont know what kind of students these are... but surely they are students doing some practical course as judged by the neatness/emptiness of the lab, the amount of people and them all wearing labcoats.... when i still worked at the other lab, i  often passed these windows and was surprised that even around 7 they still seem to have classes...
im about to leave work, and no inspiration for a picture... thats why i choose this one. generally i dont wear a labcoat, its too hot; only when i might get dirty or when working with mammalian cells. as a student you have to buy an (expensive labcoat) and you have to wear it, no matter what stupid thing you are doing. and then you are released into a real lab and very surprised that none of the real scientists are wearing labcoats.... :) in the lab where i did my PhD we were actually obliged to wear a coat, and often they came to check whether we did so (but usually we got informed about inspection beforehand, so.... ). funny.. from my experience, it seems labrules are much more strict in the netherlands than in US...
ok, i guess all that was not very interesting to the general public, off to home now!

3 comments:

biebkriebels said...

I think it is interesting, I don't know much about labs, always nice to learn something new.

Jenny said...

Alas, the novices you see slaving away belong to the pharmacy school, not to Harvard Med. I think they let them display their white-coated glory to Longwood Ave. just to console them that they're not across the street...or possibly to remind the cocky HMS folks that if they stumble, the pharmacy school will be waiting behind them with a sharpened dagger to take over on a moment's notice....

Anonymous said...

perhaps they don't need consoling and are perfectly happy not being part of the harvard community. in fact they might be annoyed having to work in proximity of a bunch of spoiled brats.