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Gimpness comments on What are some science mistakes you made in college? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Gimpness 23 March 2014 10:40:04AM 7 points [-]

Wasting time fixing a problem rather then starting a fresh i.e. biology/genetics - rather then just ordering in new primers(oligos), reagents(Taq, nucleotides etc) wasted a few weeks trying to find out which specific component was faulty. All the components are not very expensive while time tends to be - especially for scholarships.