If there was only one piece of advice that I could give to baby chemistry students just starting out on experimental work, it would be this: take lab notes like your life depends on it. Always write down the date, no detail is too silly, add clarifications for future you. You remember how you did your experiment now, you know what this random brief note means now, but in a month or two you'll need this information again and I promise you will not remember. Lab notes naturally get a little messy and I'm not telling you to use highlighters, sticky notes, and freaking washi tape, but try to keep this stuff as neat as you can, because being lazy about keeping it in order WILL come back to bite you in the ass sooner or later
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