Mary Buford’s Reviews > Lab Girl > Status Update

I’ve realized Bill is the lab partner she already introduced in the beginning and is more of a brother figure for her which feels better.

I’m enjoying reading about her PhD project on the hackberry pit and discovering that the latticework is opal - it reminds me how cool chemistry is and I get how it could become obsessive. I’m curious why she felt she would never be like the any of the women she knew.

I liked the lessons about her pine tree having a life just like hers and how it died even though it should have out lived her. I also liked the story about how seeds wait for their chance and only get one, as do we.

Great still. I really relate to how she talks about scientific writing and the funding process. I do get the impression she doesn’t have the healthiest work life balance and is addicted to the scientific process. I do of course understand how that can happen, being in research academia myself, but I am feeling nervous for her about that.

Great so far! I like that she called us scientists immediately.