Challenges, Rewards and Lessons Learned

The challenges: being a clueless female student learning how to use the equipment in the machine shop, trying not to ask too many "stupid" questions.

The rewards: learned how to use industrial amounts of epoxy on cow bones (gee...haven't applied that skill for a while), learned how to arc weld, passed the class!

And the lessons learned: Never drop a drill bit near the floor drain. The drain acts like a black hole and the guy in charge of the machine shop asks you to not come back.