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Re:U.S. Citizens Now Hold About $1.3 Trillion in Student Loa... by AnimalMuppet on Monday November 21, 2016 @12:58PM (#13007410)
"A couple of months in the laboratory can frequently save a couple hours in the library." - Frank Westheimer

That is, if you don't know what's in the books, you can waste a huge amount of time re-discovering it in the laboratory...

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Re:U.S. Citizens Now Hold About $1.3 Trillion in Student Loa... by jimmywanger on Monday November 21, 2016 @01:16PM (#13007601)
That is only if you're doing stuff on the cutting edge of basic science.

What you learn in lab classes in college is what's important in most industry and academia. Being careful of cross contamination, religiously keeping up your lab notebook, being able to troubleshoot experiments, keeping things documented and repeatable. That's 99.9% of industry research, not coming up with new reactions or processes.

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