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| − | + | First day of IGEM...what do I say? I was disoriented at first...very disoriented. I mean a science classroom in an art college. I agree I might be stereotyping. | |
| − | + | I didn’t really know what to expect. Here I was, an art and design student doing a synthetic biology project. | |
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| + | Having studied biology earlier, especially genetics, (not in depth, but whatever CBSE had deemed necessary for their students to know) I remembered bits and | ||
| + | pieces of our classes, in that dark classroom of my school. It surprised me that I’d begun this venture with a seemingly clean slate, surprised that I had not | ||
| + | retained much of what I had studied earlier. | ||
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| + | That’s where we began. A discussion on what we thought synthetic biology was. Awkward silences and many pauses. The ice had yet to be broken. New faces weren’t | ||
| + | the issue, the foreign nature of the subject of our discussion was. So we plodded on. About genes, DNA, traits. Life. What form of life could be without form? | ||
| + | A formless form of life? God? Plasma? Viruses? That opened us up. We discussed ideas, and concepts. And got our very first assignment! To think of the most | ||
| + | insane form of life we could think up. Then was time for research. I researched synthetic biology, gene expression, DNA, genes, nucleic acids, formation of | ||
| + | DNA, and a whole host of other random terms that hit me at that time that I don’t seem to have retained anywhere my head (Note to self: Must remember to go | ||
| + | check up all those again!!). A tutorial on scientific jargon later, we were dismissed for the day. | ||
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| + | Totally blank, and honestly, a bit lost, to thinking and innovating. All in a day's work, I guess. But I do know this for sure, I am definitely looking forward to where we will be going from here. | ||
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Revision as of 21:02, 25 May 2011
24th May 2011 - A New Beginning
First day of IGEM...what do I say? I was disoriented at first...very disoriented. I mean a science classroom in an art college. I agree I might be stereotyping. I didn’t really know what to expect. Here I was, an art and design student doing a synthetic biology project.
Having studied biology earlier, especially genetics, (not in depth, but whatever CBSE had deemed necessary for their students to know) I remembered bits and pieces of our classes, in that dark classroom of my school. It surprised me that I’d begun this venture with a seemingly clean slate, surprised that I had not retained much of what I had studied earlier.
That’s where we began. A discussion on what we thought synthetic biology was. Awkward silences and many pauses. The ice had yet to be broken. New faces weren’t the issue, the foreign nature of the subject of our discussion was. So we plodded on. About genes, DNA, traits. Life. What form of life could be without form? A formless form of life? God? Plasma? Viruses? That opened us up. We discussed ideas, and concepts. And got our very first assignment! To think of the most insane form of life we could think up. Then was time for research. I researched synthetic biology, gene expression, DNA, genes, nucleic acids, formation of DNA, and a whole host of other random terms that hit me at that time that I don’t seem to have retained anywhere my head (Note to self: Must remember to go check up all those again!!). A tutorial on scientific jargon later, we were dismissed for the day.
Totally blank, and honestly, a bit lost, to thinking and innovating. All in a day's work, I guess. But I do know this for sure, I am definitely looking forward to where we will be going from here.
