The experience reminds me of a favorite saying: Most of the yield from research efforts comes from the coal that is mined while looking for diamonds.
It was always assumed that I would go to college.
I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.
The excitement of vitamins, nutrition and metabolism permeated the environment.
During my early years at Minnesota I conducted an evening enzyme seminar.
A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement.