UCSD COSMOS Cluster 7

So, the second week of COSMOS is starting. Our first weekend was pretty fun. We went to Knott's on Saturday. Chantal tried to make Tiffany, Shannon, and me go on Silver Bullet, but we were all too cowardly to go. =D So we ended up going on Sidewinder, Jaguar, Perilous Plunge, Bigfoot Rapids, and Ghostrider. We saw RA's everywhere, and we also got to see some of the UC Irvine COSMOS people. I saw my friend there, so I'm happy. Ghostrider was pretty fun. We got in a really long line for the two back rows (our RA's who had lined up behind us went two rounds before us), but I guess it was worth it! The drops were really intense and unexpected, especially with Chantal telling us it was a REALLY slow ride with absolutely no drops. It turned out to be the opposite. Anyway, Knott's was fun, and we got to stay a good hour and a quarter after the Irvine COSMOS people until 9:45.

Yesterday we went to the beach. I didn't feel like going all the way in, so I waded in a little bit with Shannon. It was still fun anyway. Maybe next week I'll go all the way in...

I'd better get back to work now. We're restarting our lab work. We're going to be analyzing our ghost membrane samples from last week for the membrane proteins, which will be pretty cool. We're going to be loading our samples into the gel for the SDS-PAGE.

Have a good day!


~C.S.