Villain: this lab report

[Giggy of Telford]

I have spent the night trying to do a writeup for an experiment which we never did, as that is the Key Skills module's way of teaching us scientific writing. Having struggled to explain a strange blip in the results which we are asked to comment on I have spent days having no ideas, then tonight somethnig came to me and i wrote it up and even came up with an experiment to test whether my theory was true, feeling quite pleased with myself.

I was just checking everything through and gettign ready to print it out when I noticed something didn't quite make sense, only to realise my explanation didn't work at all and I'd just made an absolutely massive mistake. The person I was discussing this with went offline mid-discussion without warning (I'll get them tomorrow) and i haven't had any great ideas since, just a few half-ideas which when i thought about didn't work either. So now in its place I have a mention of why it can't be one thing, suggest something else and explain why this is unlikely.

Good news is this isn't in until 4pm tomorrow and after several weeks of trying to kill us the elcture timetable has suddenly calmed down a lot and this thursday I just happen to be free from 11am onwards. Giving me a chance to talk it over with people tomorrow morning, catch a bus back to my room, write down anything which happens to come to mind, catch the bus again and hand it in.....I'm glad i have a bus pass.

[robotsmfc]

Science is probably the only thing that has the strange capacity to lead even people who know a little bit about it completely up the garden path from time to time.

[thevicar]

If the blip isn't repeated in later experiments, blame it on recording error and head for the pub!

[robotsmfc]

Pure genius.

[Giggy of Telford]

Came up with an idea in the end to try and explain it, not sure I'm overly convinced by it and I heard what may have been a much better explanation in a lecture AFTER the deadline. However it was more a sidepoint which needed addressing (I hope) so hopefully they will just be happy I thought of something.

I gave up on trying to figure it out that night and went back to it the day after, not straight away mind as first I had lectures, then as I'd been up late getting angry with this work I then fell asleep, then I did the work. Handed it in at about 3:45.

Not sure when we hear back about it, though that is most of the major deadlines gone before Easter.