1 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:01,525 HANSOL: She's our TA. 2 00:00:01,525 --> 00:00:03,784 TAs know everything. 3 00:00:03,784 --> 00:00:09,218 [MUSIC PLAYING] 4 00:00:09,218 --> 00:00:10,980 LINA: Something bad happened. 5 00:00:10,980 --> 00:00:13,000 My flask tipped over. 6 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:16,450 Something bad always happens whenever I do an experiment. 7 00:00:16,450 --> 00:00:19,990 It's either my flask tips over or something explodes. 8 00:00:19,990 --> 00:00:23,380 Do you make mistakes too? 9 00:00:23,380 --> 00:00:24,345 PHIL: I still make mistakes. 10 00:00:24,345 --> 00:00:25,240 LINA: Wait really? 11 00:00:25,240 --> 00:00:26,770 What did you do? 12 00:00:26,770 --> 00:00:27,750 PHIL: What did I do? 13 00:00:27,750 --> 00:00:29,000 LINA: Yeah. 14 00:00:31,350 --> 00:00:33,540 PHIL: I've had some pretty bad days. 15 00:00:33,540 --> 00:00:34,790 KATHARINA RIBBECK: My worst day in lab... 16 00:00:39,390 --> 00:00:42,030 JUSTIN BULLOCK:It's more like a worse like two weeks. 17 00:00:42,030 --> 00:00:45,680 GRACE YAO: My worst day in lab had to be the day where I had 18 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:47,880 to smash fish. 19 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:50,360 PHIL: One day in undergrad, I was re-crystallizing something 20 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:51,290 on a hotplate. 21 00:00:51,290 --> 00:00:54,160 NICOLE KAVANAUGH: I was doing an RNA purification. 22 00:00:54,160 --> 00:00:56,460 GRACE YAO: First of all, I'm a little scared of fish. 23 00:00:56,460 --> 00:00:58,510 I had this mortar and pestle. 24 00:00:58,510 --> 00:01:02,156 PHIL: I set up this big huge two liter flask on a ring 25 00:01:02,156 --> 00:01:04,800 stand and everything connected to a hose 26 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:07,710 GRACE YAO: And I had to put the little fish in and smash 27 00:01:07,710 --> 00:01:08,840 it to powder. 28 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:10,950 The fish head just flew off onto the floor 29 00:01:10,950 --> 00:01:13,900 PHIL: And before I could fasten it, the hose whipped 30 00:01:13,900 --> 00:01:17,680 the flask across the room and it shattered all over. 31 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:19,500 NICOLE KAVANAUGH: And I made some poison gas. 32 00:01:19,500 --> 00:01:21,610 JUSTIN BULLOCK: By the end, I pretty much had nothing left 33 00:01:21,610 --> 00:01:24,660 and it was just a failure. 34 00:01:24,660 --> 00:01:26,770 PHIL: You're going to cry at that point. 35 00:01:26,770 --> 00:01:28,580 Your day cannot get any worse than that. 36 00:01:28,580 --> 00:01:30,050 ALONA BIRJINIUK: The very first time it's always 37 00:01:30,050 --> 00:01:31,310 nerve-wracking. 38 00:01:31,310 --> 00:01:33,312 This is your experiment. 39 00:01:33,312 --> 00:01:35,100 And if things don't go right- 40 00:01:35,100 --> 00:01:36,950 BEN OFORI-OKAI: There are going to be times where you 41 00:01:36,950 --> 00:01:38,670 may not feel like your going to be capable. 42 00:01:38,670 --> 00:01:40,140 But the truth is that you actually are. 43 00:01:40,140 --> 00:01:43,540 You just have to like step back, take a deep breath, 44 00:01:43,540 --> 00:01:47,300 remember like who you are like where you came. 45 00:01:47,300 --> 00:01:48,765 KATHARINA RIBBECK: You have failures of course. 46 00:01:48,765 --> 00:01:52,950 And you're very disappointed and then redo it. 47 00:01:52,950 --> 00:01:56,150 But this is local and then you have to move on. 48 00:01:56,150 --> 00:01:58,100 LINA: Something bad always happens and I always have to 49 00:01:58,100 --> 00:01:58,840 start over. 50 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:01,690 But Tengfei told me that when she was an undergrad she was 51 00:02:01,690 --> 00:02:04,460 even worse than I was and look at her now. 52 00:02:04,460 --> 00:02:07,280 She's teaching us how to do all these things. 53 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:10,880 It's so encouraging because if she can learn, 54 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:12,040 then I can learn too. 55 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:15,280 And someday I'll be just as good as she is. 56 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:17,980 PHIL: Oh wow, I really should've been wearing safety 57 00:02:17,980 --> 00:02:19,480 glasses here.