microbiology!

i’m sorry it’s been so long since i’ve shared anything, but i wanted to hop on to share a little update :) i am now, officially, a microbiologist !!!

i wanted to share that earlier this month, i graduated with my BS in biology!!

now that i’ve graduated, im on the hunt for a job and im not sure what is going to come of this page. posting will for sure be slow and i will not be sharing any details of my job on here. perhaps i will just share occasional papers and posts that i find interesting.

i just wanted to say thank you for 7k followers <3 y’all are so cool

i got this book yesterday and i’m so excited to read it!! lister was the pioneer of antiseptic techniques in medicine and surgery and since i love microbio, this is super interesting to me :)

spent my morning doing some culturing 🦠

my technique definitely needs some work, so i’m thankful for the practice that i’m getting 💗

some of the species i cultured today were

staph epidermis

bacillus cereus

serratia marcescens

e. coli

pseudomonas aeruginosa

micrococcus luteus

thanks for nearly 7k of you, and i wanted to announce that my last semester is starting on tuesday 1/16, and regular posts will be resuming then!!

from @mouthsandpipettes on instagram

thank you! 🫶🏻

for someone going into microbiology, i’d definitely recommend putting effort into your chemistry courses, especially if they’re not your strong suit (i’m not very good at chemistry)

hello! thank you so much! while i’m not a biochem major, i can definitely recommend Lehninger’s Principles of Biochemistry. i’ve always been told that it’s the bible of biochemistry, but textbooks are also so expensive, so definitely take that into account.

aww thank you 🥹🫶🏻

getting thought the first two years to start getting to the fun stuff can definitely seem daunting or boring, depending on how you look at it, but it really is so worth it!! as someone who had a very rough first year, but has come back from it, i definitely recommend putting your all into those more “basic” classes, because they lay the groundwork for your future endeavors!!

my fall semester is over and i know most people are also either done or finishing up!! congrats to everyone for simply surviving because that’s all we can do lol

this semester was a really difficult one for me, but i only have one left before graduating with my BS. enjoy your winter break and regular content will resume next month <3