How did you get a job in a lab if you were not familiar with a pipette?
"I still don't know how he did it."
Practice. Learning through mistakes. Tips from others.
"I still don't know how he did it."
Practice. Learning through mistakes. Tips from others.
It was a matter of ejecting the pipette contents at the right moment while removing the pipette from the medium at the correct speed (I exaggerated my ignorance a little bit for rhetorical effect.) But there was no way to verbally teach the right "feel" for it - you just had to do it over and over until you learnt how pipetting "right" felt. You could (and I did) observe my PI do it the "right" way, but you can only get so close to hitting a baseball by watching a pro - at some point, you pick up the bat and learn by swinging.
Semantics. Familiarirty with a piece of equipment versus familiarity proper technique when using it.