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[hnpcc]

Talk about why you should start writing your lab talk earlier than the day before you're supposed to give it...

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[hawkida.livejournal.com]

Didn't quite follow this... Did you leave writing something late? Did the Hons Student give a really, really bad talk that proved you should start earlier? Or was it something else entirely?

[hnpcc]

No it was me forgetting until Tuesday that I was scheduled to give one of the lab talks this Thursday (for some reason I hadn't correlated "July" with "this week"). Then, being busy on Tuesday, only starting scanning images on Wednesday. Then discovering (somewhat belatedly) that one scanned Western blot looks a hell of a lot like every other scanned Western blot. Then spending hours firstly finding which blot was which image, then making slides.

I only left at 8pm Wed night because I was meeting my brother and sister for tea at 7.30pm, and then came back at 7am on Thurs morning to finish the last couple of slides.

Talk went well though, which was good. :-)

I don't usually "write" my talks per se, I tend to make slides and talk about them. Although I do have a note sheet with what each bit of my construct was designed to do, which antibody binds to which bit of the protein and other bits of odd information that I can't always remember offhand. This talk also went for 30 mins rather than 9 mins like my previous one. :-)