(Two decades ago, I had a summer job washing glassware in Cape Cod's Marine Biological Laboratory.
Page C1 Dining AT JOHNSON AND WALES, MIXING DRINKS FOR CREDIT A new lab sets Johnson & Wales apart in the culinary arts as students wash glassware, make ice, mix standard drinks and create their own.
(Two decades ago, I had a summer job washing glassware in Cape Cod's Marine Biological Laboratory. Whenever researchers extracted an optic nerve, they threw the rest of the squid into a freezer, and about once a month we took a cooler-full to the beach for grilling).
SNW: Online, you have a "welcome kit" that's full of detailed information on stuff like washing glassware.
There were at least five other undergraduates in the lab, so we all took turns with the daily responsibilities such as washing glassware, archiving journal articles, and preparing buffers for the column resin.
One of the frustrating things when I had first started this job--there would be dirty glassware up in the cabinet, and I thought, "How can you not know how to wash glassware?" So I decided I'd be very explicit about how to clean glassware.
If you believe that learning to think is the main thing you spent those 7 years doing, you're blocking out some insidious memories of repeated attempts to crystallize proteins, debugging code, washing glassware, or detailing your PI's Audi for insane hours and low pay.
Holiday RX: Don't wash glassware or sharp knives after you've had alcohol (I know, that does make the washing more tolerable, but trust me).
It's one thing to be asked to work independently; it's another to spend the whole summer at the sink washing glassware or floundering at the bench without insight or guidance.
Wash glassware, dinnerware, flatware and finally pans in that order when washing dishes by hand.
