Techniques learned in the lab

Hi,

This is my third month that I’ve been working on my investigation and thougout it I have learned many techniques that are use in laboratories. I think that one of the most important is the communication between your mentor, your teammates and you. Without communication there is nothing that you can do because you won’t know what or how to do it. Another thing that communication can help you with is to the level of comfort. Sometimes you don’t feel comfortable of what your doing or how you do it. If you have a nice communication level with your teammates you can talk to them and maybe find a solution to it.

Since a scientific investigation is a really serious thing, another techniques that is really important is to have a well made lab notebook. In the investigation I have to be measuring time, mass, molarity, etc. and if I don’t keep an organized notebook and make note of everything, all the work that I did probably wouldn’t count because there is no way to anyone to redo my job and proved that what I said is true.

There are others techniques that I’ve learned but I’m afraid that I can’t tell you because my mentor is trying the make a patent and they prohibited me to say anything about it. So sorry.