What to expect?
This summer participating in the Howard Hughes Research Fellows program is my first time conducting research and I am very excited. Since being accepted into the program I have looked forward to beginning my summer of growing in skill and knowledge. Because I have never participated in research before, I'm not quite sure what to expect from the experience and this adds to my anxiousness to get started. I do hope that this summer I will really be able to feel as though I am a part of the lab and learn how to be an important contributer to the group. I want to get hands-on experience and be able to learn various techniques that will make me more skilled to work in a lab in the future. My overall goal for the summer is to gain confidence in my abilities as an establishing scientist and be able to feel at home in a lab. I hope the experience is a positive one and that I can continue to do research as a part of my undergraduate studies here at Duke University.
