When You Forget to Label Your Sample Tubes and Now You’re Playing God

You in the lab:
Running a “simple” experiment.

Brain: “Remember to label everything.”
Hand: Forgets to label anything.
Background music: Mission: Impossible theme intensifies


10 minutes later:
Staring at 5 identical tubes like:
Which one’s control?
Which one’s treated?
Why am I like this?

Now you’re not just a scientist.
You’re a biotech god guessing fate, assigning identity, deciding destiny. :folded_hands::alembic:


You:
“I think this one feels like Sample A.”
“This looks like something I would’ve pipetted first.”
“This is probably the buffer… I hope.”

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