The semester comes to a close and so does the class. This semester was ultimately fairly trying for me, not due to the class, but due to outside factors. Due to those factors, I missed several things and had to make up others. Doing outside work was also a hassle. My isolates for course produced little to no results, with what results they did have not being reproduced. On top of all this, the group project idea turned out to be a flop and there was no enough time or resource

Honestly, I am somewhat struggling to come up with a topic to write about in regards to the class that isnt just me summarizing lab protocols or things covered in lecture. Bearing this in mind, what I am choosing to write about now may be off-topic for what we are supposed to write about but I hope it is related enough to be ok. I am just having trouble as beyond writing about my general frustrations with the lackluster testing results theres not much I can write at length ab

During the course of doing the group individual project, I have found great disappointment in the results of my and Dev's samples. I could be wrong in my thinking, but I figured an area like the mouth, which sees a large amount of foreign bacteria from food, drink, inhaled air, and whatever else, would have a large amount of competition that would lead to antibiotic production. However, this hypothesis has proven to be at the very least non-universal if not entirely untrue.

During the process for thinking about the independent project, I intitially didnt think we would be in groups though I suppose that would have been obvious with the limited time, space, and resources of the lab. Had I been fully aware of the group aspect, I likely would have suggested something similar but different. Exactly what I dont know, but probably something with more scale to it seeing as I wouldnt have to do it entirely alone. The idea I came up with though ended up

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