This past week has been a very interesting one. I was actually a little less busy and had time to get some other things done. On Halloween night I was able to finish most of my homework so I could catch the firework show for Dia de Los Muertos. It was my first time hearing that Austin had this show every year for the holiday. It was really nice to see families gathered to end the night of trick or treating with a beautiful firework show. It was great to start off my week this way. The next day it hit me that I actually had a lot of assignments due very soon, so again the stress was back. I had a ULN meeting Thursday that required me to stay on campus for an extra 5 hours. Unfortunately, I completely forgot to check my weather app and it started pouring after class on Thursday. I had to either run across campus, get soaked and stay soaked until I went home or I had the chance to run to the bus and miss my ULN meeting. So clearly I decided to skip the meeting so I could stay dry and not get sick again. I started thinking that my good week start was started to go bad. I confirmed this when I got an email from my research lab manager stated that she needed to talk to me about something serious. I started to panic. I didn’t know what I could have done, but I knew I didn’t want to see my Lab manager. Sadly I had to be in the Lab on Friday and she told me what had happened. Apparently, I had messed up some data collecting which caused the results of their study to be incorrect. Although my lab manager was understanding, I still felt guilty. She assured me that I could re-do the files and then everything would be ok.

Even though my week started off amazing, it ended badly. Usually, you would expect the opposite. Friday’s are supposed to be awesome, not sucky. Hopefully, I have a way better week and don’t screw up any important lab results.