The Michigan Daily-Saturday, June 3, 1978-Page 11
Goodness! Me working in a lab!
(Continued from Page9)
Sandy slices brains in order to make
slides. Do you know how long it takes to
section a section of a frozen sheep
brain? Don't ask.
So what keeps me there? The people,
of course. Everyone is on a first name
basis, rank is usually not pulled,
everyone is highly competent and in-
telligent. I must admit to having some
fears when I first started that everyone
in the lab would be like the stereotyped
pre-med student. Studious to ridiculous
lengths, unable to talk even semi-
intelligently on any subject other than
hard-core science, uncultured,
illiterate and truly dull. Fortunately,
most of the people who work in my lab
are not suck dolts. Theater, sports,
opera, camping, cooking, books,
politics-all are frequently discussed in
lab conversation. and what's even more
enjoyable is -the varied racial
backgrounds and geographic locations.
Kathy swears by Chicago, and Bob, a
native San Franciscian, when asked
about finding a job in L.A., bat-
ted his eyes and incredulously
responded "Why would anyone
want to live there?" Alice is from
Manhattan (I'm also a New Yorker)
and still hasn't answered my query as
to why she's living in the midwest. She
just kept saying "Why am I here?"
over and over again till the sound of her
voice was inaudible. Bloomingdale's,
Altmant, Wannamaker's. Sigh.
BESIDES being friendly and helpful,
no one seems to tower over everyone
else as the boss. Everything is team-
oriented. For example, the Endocrine
Meetings, a scientific conference being
held in Miami this year begins in a
week. Scientists from the whole country
come and give ten-minute talks,
showing what discoveries they've un-
covered in the year. Many members of
my lab are giving talks, so they prepare
them now and give them in front of
everyone in the lab, a sort of trial run.
The audience the critiques everything,
from conclusions poorly drawn to poor
graph layouts. I'm waiting to add my 2
concerning the deliveries. Bob assures
me that you can't get bored by a ten
minute speech. Yawn.
I am independent. I can work at 4
a.m. or 3 p.m. I can ask what may be
silly questions and get straightforward
answers. I can take an hour for lunch. I
am consulted about my work. I am
depended upon, and in short, I'm a
member of a very hard-working
organization. An average work week
running 50-70 hours is, for most scien-
tists in the lab, not unusual.
There are some advantages to being
a scientist. One is that you stop thinking
of the U.S. as a world, because you deal
frequently with scientists in other coun-
tries. If one heard snatches of conver-
sation, one would think a group of
wealthy jet-setters met for lunch "Well,
I want to go to Paris to hear that
new-" "Oh, I've been there, but Dr.
Smith, you know, in Melbourne, is so
much better-" "Marvelous cafe in
Melbourne, on-" "We just received a
paper from Sweden about ... " etc. As
a matter of fact, we just had a visitor
in from Britain, a delightful chap who
informed us that "knowing" the queen
is still a capital offenseand detailed
what it's like to fish the traditional
Japanese way, in Tokyo Bay of course.
Tres cosmopolitan.
Well, I have to help with sheep
surgery tomorrow. I'm not looking for-
ward to it, being hot, and muggy,
smelling the sheep, and itching. But I
know everyone else will feel the same
way, perhaps more so. Maybe someone
will win the Nobel prize. The Oscar or
Tony of Science.
Constant curiosity.
That's what keeps everybody going.
The federal government owns and
operates a fleet of nearly 191,000 trucks,
which makes it the motor vehicle in-
dustry's biggest truck user, says the
Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Associa-
tion.
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