Persisting



Just few days ago, we did a lab on calculating the concentration of the vinegar to compare it with the concentration written on the vinegar's label. We first put vinegar into the long cylinder (which we had to be super careful) and cleansed the inside to make sure it won't get mixed with water or any other kinds of chemical. Then we would empty it and re-fill it with vinegar. By then, I thought our experiment today will go well and we had 4 people which is quite a big group. I thought to myself, hmmm this experiment will end fast then! However, it didn't happen like what I expected the experiment to be. We ended up re-doing the experiment 5 times or more. Once, we forgot to rinse the inside of the long beaker with vinegar. Then, when we did it again, we forgot to clean the beaker which had the vinegar and base mixed chemical inside. Because of these tiny careless mistakes, we had to redo a simple experiment 5 times. However, none of us got angry or frustrated about it. Instead, we thought of it in a positive way. We said things like, " oh our results would be the most accurate one since we did it 5 times!" or "it's actually good for us because we did 5 rough trials and did a lot of practice !". Comments like this helped us lighten up and get hope whenever we saw other groups finish the experiment and start packing up. Although it was annoying when we had to keep redoing the experiment, we got together and didn't give up, persistence indeed