Friday night

In terms of thouroughness of training, I think this summer is much better than last summer. Although a lot of things are really obvious to me now, there are still other things I didn't quite know before, such as designing primers, building constructs, performing expression tests, and I believe there are still a lot more. Moreover, there are more uncertainties involved in my project because nobody has tried it before either. So I feel really excited. The environment at the Max-Planck-Institute is extremely cooperative, and my PhD mentor is patient and knowledgeable. I believe my technical skills will improve quite a lot this summer. Still, I really want to learn some biophysical techniques and how to co-express proteins for a complex molecular machine. There is always so much to learn but so little time.

Tonight I'm going to the city with my co-worker to this cocktail bar. Hopefully it will be a good time. I haven't quite experienced the night-life of the city yet, so I'm quite excited. Tomorrow morning I'm going to this beer tour, and on Sunday I'm going to visit some castles in the Münsterland region, which is said to have more castles than any other places in Germany. There are many other places I want to visit, like Berlin, Münich, Kassel the city of art and fairy tale, Göttingen the famous university town, Köln for the fantastic collection in its fantastic art museums, and the picturesque and wine-producing region of Mosell.

Okay, that's all for now. Time to have fun on Friday night. Tschüss!