First of all, I really enjoyed the lab and thought it was a very interesting experiment. I have always been curious about how medicinal drugs are actually created so I felt that it was very enlightening to actually be able to make our own aspirin. One thing this lab highlighted was the importance of following procedures very carefully. My group had to reread each of the steps before doing anything and also read a few steps ahead and then back in order to make sure we were doing everything exactly as written and in the correct order. Thankfully, our efforts resulted in the successful creation of aspirin with no salicylic acid but I could see that many groups were not as successful. I do not blame them since I was still unsure if we had done everything absolutely correct in the procedure but it was probably this attention to detail that made our group successful. One of the greatest strengths of the scientific method is how mathematical and procedural it is, that if it is done correctly the desired result will be achieved. One problem, however, is the potential lack of precision with humans themselves that can interfere with the experiment.