Reporting from the land of duty and after 5 weeks I can
honestly say that today is the first day that I actually ENJOYED working at the
laboratory. After countless and soul oppressing venipunctures here comes redemption,
also known as The Microscope.
I’ve started working at the parastiology section today.
Preparing the perfect slides and adjusting to make the perfect field and then observing the miniature universe and finally writing down these
observations.
As being the intern has it’s perks (sarcasm) and for it being
my first day I wasn’t on the fighting front right from the start so my
supervisor worked most of the time and then called me to watch the prepared
slides under the microscope. Few slides has passed and then there it was. My
supervisor with her hands on the fine adjustment knob of the microscope called me specifically saying ‘’Drop whatever
you’re writing down this second and come see these dancing stars, Subhan Allah’’
– She had me at stars.
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| The actual slide that I saw today. |
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| Closer look at the calcium oxalate crystals - Google search. |
Needless to say I had my eyes through the lenses in a
fraction of a second and then said, ‘’what am I looking at?’’ They did look
like perfect shapes of what we learned to draw as stars.
These tiny perfect starry shaped are calcium oxalate salt
crystals. And when my supervisor told me this, at that exact
second this Hubble photo crossed my mind.
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| Like Salt Sprinkled on Black Velvet Click here for more details on the photo |
I’ve seen it a while ago and remember its title clearly ‘Like
Salt Sprinkled on Black Velvet’.
Kind of awesome right? And maybe a bit scary in the most poetic way possible..
This Hubble Telescope photo of this realm of the universe has
a striking resemblance of the slide I saw today
This can mean whatever you want to mean, to me it's only saying that the very small resembles the very big. That is if you can understand the small scale stuff you will find your way to the bigger picture, whatever that is for you. It makes you think, we're as humans are floating universes on this Earth. We often complain about 'Finding our way' or trying to see this bigger picture and figuring out what to do with our lives. Here's what I learned today: Adjust your knobs, find your field and make sure your lenses are clean and ready.
I’ll leave you to look. I’m
speechless.
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'Like Salt Sprinkled on Black Velvet'
