Itching to be closer to the actual action, I started arranging and rearranging everyone’s workspace, fiddling with the micropipettes and wiping down the tabletops with copious amounts of isopropyl alcohol.

There was a certain pink spray bottle that was used exclusively in the Animal Cell Culture Facility that caught my fancy. Was it the bright Barbie pink in the otherwise sterile white lab or the fact that spray bottles were the one thing that made me feel like I was doing “real” science?