This week we had a field trip to Dr.Kauffmans lab. We went to UCSD and saw a few HTH graduates that are students at UCSD. I thought it was really interesting how they viewed HTH and UCSD. It makes me realize the pro’s and con’s of attending High Tech. One of them is the workload that we are given isnt hard at all and it doesn't prepare us for college because college gives us bigger work loads. Another thing that on of the students said was that HTH lets toy “BS” your way through and it is really easy to get A’s but in college you actually have to spend time with your work. When we went to the lab, it was split in three different groups. The first one we saw was the machines that the lab uses. One of them was to vibrate the things like samples to keep them active. Another uses a magnet plate and a small magnet inside the liquid container and it mixes it. It was really interesting how it all comes to use. The second station was how they separate the DNA strands and I thought that was really interesting. They put the DNA solution in a jelly like container that has small sections for it and the Jello is in a solution that the pH stays the same so it wont tamper with the DNA. Then they use electrical currents to separate the DNA strands and it shifts through the jello to the other side. The last station teaches us how they slice the mouse brain. Something interesting that I learned was that the brain had to be in cold temperature and our temperature for our fingertips can “melt” it. It was really interesting to see how they work in a lab and it was an interesting experience.
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