Introduction

Introduction

This blog is meant to run concurrently with a scientific experiment, as an online journal in a sense. It's "essential drafts, photographs and data" has to be "easy to follow" and honestly that is about the vaguest instructions I've heard in a while. What does that even mean anyway, bouncing cartoon tangyuans (BCTs) are banned because they're not essential? BCTs are not banned because my teacher "is not that strict"? BCTs are required to engage the reader? I really don't know.

So I've decided to split mine. Posts beginning with LB (for lab book) will be, well, the actual lab book. With aforementioned entries on experiment progress and couched in my best try at scientific language. All the other posts, e.g. this one, are rather informal.

well sorry, but I like hearing the sound of my typing, and usually ramble a lot, and can't help but think it diminishes my interest and enjoyment (and this is a student's interest-driven project) if I can't talk about the qualitative/irrelevant data like my experience conducting the experiment, yet at the same time I really am unsure about that rubric, so yeah...please tolerate., there's no need to actually read non-LB if you don't want to.

For convenience's sake there are tags as well, e.g. again, lab book. Have fun reading, good luck, and thank you!


Edit 15/7/12: from what I have seen of other's blogs and heard from my teacher, non-scientific language can be justified by wanting to be accessible to peer reviews. So yes, I also don't want to confuse anyone especially when they are already confused (sorry Charlotte).

Even if they're not the experiment, the people around you who've put up with being (repeatedly) confused are equally crucial to the project, so thank you very very much in no particular order 
Zhi Rui (reader no 1 from the get go), Kristal, Nicole, Jia Yang (yes I do in fact know I smell great like flour), Yuan An, Ms Tan, Ms Chionh, Mr Ooi , Mr Ali, Shermaine, Amy (photography skills of awesome in the classic sense), Daneel, Kellie, Jia Wen and family (oh your lovely lovely weighing scale), Laura and Charlotte and everyone else. Most importantly: Mum.