My last day of lab was a sad day, not only because the lab was ending, but because it was one of the last times I would see my lab mates.

Marta, Carina, and Susanna were wonderful lab partners and made the down times enjoyable. Originally, it was just Susanna and I as partners, but through random events we merged with Marta and Carina.

It’s sad that I have only known these people for such a short amount of time and already I have to say my goodbyes to them. No worries though! Through the medium of social media platforms, we will endeavor to stay in touch and maybe even visit each other tran-Atlantically!

Besides the great people, the laboratory section this semester was both challenging and eventful. The biochemistry portion was reminiscent of a past physics lab that I took, just mishap after mishap, but I successfully made it through the section. The molecular biology portion was definitely easier to handle with only 6 lab reports to write instead of the weekly reports from the previous section, wow! The techniques and procedures learnt will help me in my future endeavors.

On the flip side, my brother arrived in Oslo to stay and visit me! After landing, we decided that he would stay in Oslo with me for about a week, and then he would go on to travel to Germany and Sweden by himself! Whoop! This marked his first international travel by himself. So proud of him 🙂