Don't Judge A Book By It's Cover....

Its weird how sometimes some people can LOOK so smart, but in reality, they are quite very clueless....I'm not saying that I am very smart or something but there are some people that make me really question how they got so far in this degree or even how our university lets people like this pass...

This 'rant' that I'm about to go on has been fueled by a certain girl (lets call her Stacey haha) whom I do my lab work with. It was actually by choice that I ended up with her, but it sort of just happened when she turned to me one day and said "so...I'll go get the equipment for us??". Being the carefree kind of guy, I didn't exactly mind, and actually thought to myself, "she appears to be smart and knows what she's doing. This means less work for me! YAY!"........but how I was terribly wrong..... O.o

I really don't want to sound mean and say that she is an idiot, but sometimes I have to question how she doesn't know the BASICS of biology and also common sense when she has only 1.5 years left of her pharmacy degree....which means in 1.5 years time, she will be looking after real patients....

Well, it all started one week when we were growing bacteria in specialised agar plates. It comes in a round container with a lid. For me, I would have thought that it would common sense to grow the bacteria on the side of the plate that has this 'jelly-like' substance, as opposed to the empty, clear lid. I raised an eyebrow when she asked me which side she should put the bacteria. At first, i was like 'okay, maybe she just forgot' so I shrugged it off and answered her politely.

The following week comes and we are doing the EXACT same thing, just with different bacteria. Seeing as we did the same thing last week, I didn't bother to look at what she was doing as I had to concentrate on my own work. Halfway through the lab, she comes up to me and says "Uh Oh.....I think I did something wrong...". So I thought you know, maybe she used the wrong bacteria or used too much etc. etc. But to my surprise, she said that she wiped the bacteria on the lid, instead of the jelly..... =.="....im guessing she didn't listen to what I told her last week....

THIS week was even worse. Even someone who didnt have a background in science would go =.=". Seeing as she made simple mistakes and making us (namely me) spend even more time redoing the work, I went ahead and labelled everything and prepared everything so she didn't really have to do much. I thought to myself, "come on, she can't make a mistake now...I've done almost everything...". Once again I was terribly wrong. Unfortunately for me, not only does she have bad memory, she also seems to have bad eyesight. She was once again wiping bacteria onto one of those plates (thankfully, she did it on the correct side) and when she was done, she wanted to double check that she did it correctly. She pointed to the jar of bacteria labelled "CANDIDA ALBICANS" and then to the plate that I CLEARLY labelled as "P. AERUGINOSA" and said to me "These two are the same right?"......and I fainted..........

Okay, not really, but I wanted to so I didn't have to answer her question or to do the work again. Everytime that I have told some of my close friends in my class they have always responded by "wait, but she seems so smart?!" Anyway this is my rant of the day. Thankfully, today was the last lab that I have to do with her, so no need to faint again.