Embryology course '16: Magic will happen | The Node

Joaquin Navajas Acedo in the Embryology course lab.

Three students in the 2016 MBL Embryology course—Joaquín Navajas Acedo of the Stowers Institute, Aleisha Symon of Monash University, and Tsai-Ming Lu of Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology— write about their experience for The Node:

"We write this while we finish the last experiments for the final Show n’ Tell on Saturday full of reluctance to finish this course. Samples fly all over the lab; solutions are changed and something blue boils somewhere in the room.

"Looking back, six weeks ago we had an approximate idea of what the MBL Embryology Course was about: people doing science 24/7, lectures and a lot of organisms with names you can barely pronounce. What we did not know is that the experience was all of that and more.