There is a book out there called All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten where us adults are reminded of basic rules that are really important for getting through life (you’ll get to these in a couple years). Mommy had several moments like this in lab this week where she thought she could get around a couple steps of the problem solving process to save time and ended up back at square one to do it right (and she preaches to undergrads on the importance of all the problem solving steps!). Sometimes adults just need reminders…

There is also a Murphy’s Law about this situation: there is never time to do it right but always time to do it over.