There is a new graduate student in our lab. During his introduction, I could not help asking my usual question for new entrants; “So, do you follow football/soccer?” “Yes, I do,” he answered with a smile on his face. “Which team do you support?” “Man U,“ he answered still smiling. My stomach was convulsing by now, but I managed to conceal my abhorrence for the word he had just spoken. “And I hate Liverpool passionately,” he added unsolicited. My boss eyeballed him and cast a glance at me. I smirked. Yes, I smirked…And I am still smirking as I type. Can you believe it? I am still smirking, because he will be working directly under my supervision for the time being…And I have to train him. I guess you now know why I did not react to his avowed hatred of my beloved team. He will slave for 23 years to earn his degree…that’s how long Arsenal has gone without a league trophy. I will teach him the wrong way to design primers. He will end up inserting the wrong cloning sites in his target genes and attempt selecting transformants with the wrong antibiotic. I will offer him the very wrong plasmids, and contaminate his cultures myself. I will denature his enzymes (by cooking them), and infect his stock cultures. Yes, I will merrily give him the wrong protocols for all media and buffers he has to make! When I am through, he’d come to know that I am Francis Chibundu Brendan Rogers Never work Alone Chieze, also known as Suarez! If u like can add The Flying Antelope, Rangers International of Enugu.
Posted on: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 08:07:49 +0000