Week 2: Summer Expectations
Hello again readers of my blog! Let's get on to the primary topic of this week which is my summer expectations. Well, I don't really have any great expecations like making groundbreaking discoveries and what not. My expectation in a way is very simple but a very important one. By the end of the summer, I hope that I would be well aware of how research is conducted in the field of psychology, in short, what is it like to be a reseacher in psychology? By having a good understanding of what research is all about, I would be able to weigh my options on future careers more accurately. Like most freshman/rising sophmore, I have started thinking about my future career. Do I want to go to graduate school and get a PhD? Or do I want to go to medical school and get MD? This research experience will be of a great help in determining this because it gives me a closer look at one of the options. So that's pretty much, my summer expectation, trying to understand what research is all about.
And as for my progress in the research, it has been going ok. Obviously there have been some bumps on the road but overall it's going in the right direction. One of the "bumps" in the road is that my mentor and I are still figuring out the best way to stain the brain of neonates since they are so fragile by using immunohistochemistry. On Monday and Tuesday, we are going to try it again and hopefully it will be the best way. That's pretty much the biggest setback in the research other than that the research has been going great.
