#and i get it. the viruses she was working with cost $1000/mg. why would she ever let someone without even a bachelor's degree handle them | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

ourladyoftheflytrap · 2 days ago

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I was soooo excited to work under a bomb ass woman with a PhD in chemical engineering who was running experiments related to virus filtration systems last summer only to be severely disappointed because she clearly did not want undergrads working in her lab, was forced into accepting us by the university, and then had no activities or projects lined up for us to do once we were there

#at first i thought it was so cool that just one other undergrad and i were allowed to work under her #but now its clear to me that she didnt even want That and that was the compromise she had to settle for with the rest of her department #and i get it. the viruses she was working with cost $1000/mg. why would she ever let someone without even a bachelor's degree handle them #but that begs the question. why even let undergrads into your lab at all if you cannot let them assist with your projects #most other undergrads actively helped with the research their mentors (phd students) were conducting #meanwhile my mentor had to take time out of his busy schedule Making Up Shit for me and my lab partner to do #and he was very nice and tried hard for us but its clear the only instructions he was operating on #were ''dont let the undergrads touch the important shit.'' and then his boss who was running the whole operation #wasnt even in the country for most of the program so we couldnt even interview her or pick her brain #definitely the experience was not at all as advertised v_v and im sad because on paper it sounds cool #and i mean i still got stuff out of it so i cant complain too much. but i can complain a little

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