10:00 AM: I met with Dr. Pittman to learn, with the help of Dr. Arrington, how to use and measure a pH meter. I would have thought that this would be a more exact way into identifying the endpoint of the titrations, but not all my graphs are looking like the ones they said they would. Like instead of flat, shoot up, and flatten back out, most of them are looking just rounded like a logarithmic graph. So point being, I can't tell where the endpoint is, and the samples are not turning light blue to way after the point on the graphs where they're flattening out, not in the middle of the steep slope. But I don't know. I've had a bad day.
Overall: I don't understand why I'm having such a hard time with something working out the way it's suppose to. But then again, this is a research project and I'm just learning, so there will be many failures before a success.
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