Interviewing

So today I interviewed with my advisor and her two doctoral students with regards to working in the lab. I think it went well...I may have impressed the grad students more than my advisor, but she did catch me off guard.

That's what I get for not reading up on her research before going in. Not that it would have really mattered, as she has almost nothing written about it on her faculty page.

But I got along incredibly well with the two grad students, and that's what I was really worried about. Both of them (both women) were easy to talk to. We soon strayed away from discussing the lab projects and talking about classes (I've had two courses with the both of them, as the Micro program has grad and undergrad sections of the same classes--with the only difference being that the grad sections have an extra meeting each week). We also talked about vaccines, IVF (in vitro fertilization), birthday cake, and how cartoons were so much better when we were kids. I had a great time and my advisor was shocked to see that I was still there talking with them when she came in to talk to one of the students about her project.

So I've got my fingers crossed at the moment. I already wrote my follow-up e-mail expressing my desire to work in the lab, so hopefully I'll hear by the end of the week.

I just want to point out that this was a completely different experience from applying to my first undergrad research lab.