As a Ph.D. student, you may be spending a lot of your time in the lab. You'll be using microscopes and working in a sterile lab, and your research will be limited to the lab environment. In contrast, undergraduate students... (More)

Somewhere along the way during my time as an undergraduate, I realized that I was not satisfied with what I was studying. This was not a sudden epiphany, nor an idea that came to me overnight, but rather one that... (More)

In deciding what exactly to do a Ph.D. in, the short answer is that I was not always sure. It was not until I became more deeply involved in research (and in my own studies in particular), that I felt... (More)