Back to School, But Older and Wiser




By that I mean that so far, I haven't broken any pipettes or dropped any DO meters into the sea, even though the boys keep sending me off into the banca by myself to get the offshore samples (because I'm the lightest, they say). Even though I would be facing my zoology class a few hours later, and I wasn't dressed to get wet, and the waves were splashing over my head, and sh*t was floating right beside me along with algae and seagrass because we had to get the samples near a very dirty river, and we had to suck the reagents with our mouths to pipette them into the test tubes because we have only ONE grotty rubber aspirator in the whole lab, and we had to use a tank (for diving) to filter our samples because we don't have any proper filtering equipment....


But who would mind all that when class work means sitting at the boulevard on a friday morning drinking beer while we figure out if it wouldn't be better to borrow the kayak at the corner store to get our samples, discussing the next steps while we're driving side by side on two motorcycles on the highway on our way to the beach, and then after all the sampling's done, stopping at the ultimate buko juice place before breaking for lunch? School's definitely more fun when you're all older and wiser ;-) (and on our third sampling, i really wisened up and wore my school uniform =P)


PS that's our whole chemical oceanography class there. all four of us =)

Comments

  1. Jemi AquinoMarch 9, 2007 at 10:56 AM

    ah, a rose among the thorns...
    but where there's a beach, you always look like you belong. =)

    HUGS,
    jemi

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  2. Chico LavinaMarch 9, 2007 at 8:13 PM

    uy Neeners!! Saan mo tinitake yung course mo?

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  3. Jerome RodilMarch 14, 2007 at 11:35 PM

    Hmnn... feet too close to the probe and not downstream enough (by the looks of it)... but not bad for a photo op. Just don't let the PhDs see you doing this on an actual testing exercise, hehe. Nice bandanna, though. =)

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  4. Jerome RodilMarch 14, 2007 at 11:38 PM

    haha! kulet!

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  5. Jeneen GarciaMarch 29, 2007 at 2:34 AM

    sa dumaguete po, surrounded by sea =) marine bio. nag-aaral ka din ba jan?

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  6. Jeneen GarciaMarch 29, 2007 at 2:37 AM

    hah, let's not even begin to talk about quality control here. when i first came to the lab, they put the excess reagents back in the bottles, and they didn't even perform the sacred triple wash! mayaman daw kasi ang ateneo =P dr. d would have a heart attack hehe.


    this was a "forced" rivermouth sampling, since the tide wasn't high enough to do a proper sampling at the site =P


    the "bandanna" is a tubao from davao =) part of my standard beach/ traveling gear.

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