This internship has done more for me that I have for the internship. I have learned so much in the past month that made me very excited to learn and to work with my hands. I absolutely loved doing my internship here and it has been a great experience for me. I think that I have showed who I am as a hardworking person and made sure to do things as carefully and thoughtfully as possible. I have made sure to show up and be present in what I am doing and make sure that I put the best effort in it even if it was something as simple as reading and annotating an article. I wanted to make sure that I was understanding it and taking everything in. At first it was really hard but by the end of the internship I understood most of the article and could get through them pretty quickly. I would try my best to get the most out of it and push myself to ask questions. Being in a lab with no one my age was a little intimidating but I was able to be myself and get my work done because I was treated as more of one of them than someone just visiting. I was able to help a lot more than I thought I would down in the vivarium. Since I wasn’t able to touch the live mice I was still able to help by writing things on the sorting cards and test tubes while learning things that they were doing. In the lab I was also able to help run PCRs and Gels (not by myself). I think that even though most of the time I was shadowing people, when I was allowed to do things on my own it was really an opportunity for me to show that I did understand and could do it. I have made an impact by just helping whenever someone needs help and continuing to help different people do different things while learning at the same time. I have been working really hard to make sure that this internship can be something that continues to go on for years to come. This is something that has more of an impact on you then you do on it because of all the content that they provide while providing an fun environment to work in at the same time. This last week I have been counting slides from the in situ that we ran two weeks ago.
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Cayla MaltmanI am an 11th grade student. Here I will be reflecting weekly to see my progress as a student this semester. Archives
May 2018
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