Cora vs Suspicious Mail

Monday. 9 July

My first official day at the lab!! I went running along the charles river in the morning and it just produced a massive smile on my face. I’ll try to explain.... music in my ears... endorphins in my blood... a fantastic view on the Boston skyline...sun...it was pure happiness. (and a lot of sweat as it gets really hot really early in the morning!!) When I was done running i just stayed there, at the river, gazing at the skyline, trying to realize what was happening. I was there. In Cambridge MA, running along the Charles River with inspiring music in my ears. Life was good.

So feeling very very good I walked over to the Whitehead. (i had a shower before that, don’t worry) it’s something like 15min away. It was time for orientation. Very boring and filled with mostly boring people. There was this one german dude for example, he came, sat down, opened his book and started to read with an arrogant look on his face. When I tried to talk to him he was like „Oh, yeah, after my degree at Cambridge...“ and I was like „you don’t need to be so full of yourself, i’m there, too“ (well i didn’t exactly say that but i should have) So they told us about the Institute and IT stuff and most importantly about safety. They are quite obessed with it. Even though I have done so many things in labs i still had to attend a BL2 training (Biosafety level 2, the max is 4 but I think they don’t even have 3) and then they told us about suspicious mail which was very funny. There was like a picture of suspiciously-lookind mail and let me tell you guys, there are several features by which you can recognise it. First of all, it can be mailed from a foreign country. It can be sealed with tape. It can have too many stamps on it. It can be adressed to someone by title, rather than by name. It can have no sender.... yeah. Suspicious mail. Be careful. I posted a picture so you can familiarize yourself with the features of suspicious mail and make sure you never get a bomb or an Anthrax infection. Yeah. I might just have saved your life. Thanks cora.