I am a palindrome and was a sequential set of three

[giallarhorn]

I've forgotten how much I hated being in this lab with all of its defunct equipment. But no matter, cause guess who was a complete idiot and missed a really basic line of text that was skipped over because it didn't look important is a genius and managed to fix one of the programs? THIS PERSON. It almost makes the drive up here and back worth it

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[aim2misbhave]

It reminds me of the one time the professor and my lab partner were baffled as to how I got an interferometer to work and I just picked up the instruction manual and I said "Uh, I read this?"

But, yeah, I used to work in a lab that had four gas chromatographs, two of which were coupled to MS units. All four of them were awaiting repair for the entire two years that I was there. If I contact the students who are still there, I imagine they're still not repaired.

[giallarhorn]

My issue is when reading the instruction manual actually makes things worse because someone else who came before fiddled with the machine to make it better/faster/more efficient, but never told anyone what they did exactly.

Yeah, chromatographs aren't cheap to fix in the least. The biology department has a similar situation, where their fluorescent microscopes had been broken since I arrived and the NMR for organic finally got fixed just as I graduated. Lack of funds, they say.