Planet College Advisory: Get A Good Lab Partner

Most every student on Planet College eventually has to take a course with a lab. When you have to take a course with class is a lab or it has a lab a few tips might be useful. First and foremost get a good lab partner. Ask someone from the course whom you know to be reliable to be your lab partner. Get their cell phone number, IM, e-mail address etc. Your lab partner should be reasonably alert and capable. They should never miss a lab. They should arrive a few minutes early to get out the equipment and help you set up for that day’s work. They should participate fully in the lab. Most lab teams divide up the tasks required. For example, one partner measures and the other records. Decide early in the term who will be responsible for what. Also decide to complete the week’s lab and turn in your completed results by the end of the week in which it is due. This must be an ironclad agreement between you and your partner. Always finish the lab the week it is due. This is the surest way to avoid ‘getting behind.” Getting behind leads to hasty, sloppy make-up work and puts you that much closer to an unacceptable grade. . How do you get a good lab partner? Simple. You get a good lab partner by being a good lab partner.