valentine's days

the only thing i can bring to your lab is childlike wonder and whimsy

Saturday, frantically finishing my internship application materials so I can send them off to my adviser to look over before the break starts and everyone becomes rightfully unreachable. I have a problem: I haven't stuck to any one path since high school. Not even the broad field of just "biology".

All my extracurriculars tend to lean towards the humanities, while my high school academic experience is all bio with a touch of something else: engineering, computer science, a whim long gone. My college academics, on the other hand, are days in the lab, days in the field, no one focus, all in the name of experiencing as much biology as I can within four years before I decide where I go next (probably med school).

I don't know any advanced things. I do know a lot of fundamentals from every which way, though. How to determine the density of trees in an area. How to design primers for PCR. How to, dubiously, perform AGE. But not a single one of these is particularly suited for the lab I've set my sights on, and the only thing I'll be bringing there is a childlike wonder and whimsy, because I think biological models are really cool. Maybe my semesters of dissection and developmental biology will help sway them? Ack. I'm wasting time whining about it here. I hope we get what we're chasing!

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