Double Shift

Today, I had school off so I was about to work a double shift at MUSC. I went in at 10:00 AM and saw research techs train the rats with the reaching rehab. They would stick a banana pellet out and the rat would have to reach for it. After about an hour of watching the research techs do that, Dr. Adkins took the three of us to what she thought was going to be a seminar. It ended up being an informal meeting so after about 15 minutes, she passed one of the research techs a note dismissing from the meeting, advising us to head back to the lab. Thus we walked back to the lab and the research techs went back to training the rats and I watched the behavior videos and collected data for about an hour. Then, the lab manager, Terry Muir, came in and I got to meet him. He worked behind me, sectioning the brains. He told me I could help him do that anytime so that was exciting. Finally, Dr. Adkins returned and I left for lunch with my mom. Tomorrow, I will continue to collect data and hopefully finish my assigned disks. Then, Thursday and Friday, I will be off at Model UN in Virginia for a long weekend!