Uh, the end was a while ago. But it was still an amazing summer.
Yeah, I know the program got over a while ago, guys. But... I just couldn't talk about it for a while. It's an emotional thing, okay? *sniff sniff*
This was an amazing summer. HH gave me the opportunity to really see what the day to day lives of people invovled in research, from undergrads to grad students, postdocs to PIs, are really like. It very happily confirmed my desire to do research in college and beyond. I was lucky to be in an encouraging, fun lab environment that stressed work hard, play hard - a great approach to the often tiring challenge that is research. All of the 6 AM mornings and 7 PM nights were completely worth it. I had the chance to learn a lot and have fun at the same time. If you're a 2010 HH kid and you've been put in the Haase lab, congrats! Shoot me an email and I'll let you know where the nerf guns are ;)
Now on to school - I'm taking a break from frantically doing the packing that I haven't been able to these past two weeks. It is going to be an amazing senior year, filled with college apps, clubs, and ...class... of course. NCSSM is a magical place, and I'm also incredibly lucky to have that opportunity. Life feels like I'm living on cloud nine - don't ask me that when I'm up at midnight writing a paper in a couple of weeks, though.
I'll continue to do research this year, try to work really hard, and figure out where I want to go and what I want to do. Not such a tall order, right?
