Hello everyone!
For this blog I wanted to talk a bit about my thesis project. I started doing the lab work and my goal has been to complete the project within this month.
It was fun thinking about designing the experiment, but I did need a lot of help from my project director, Dr. Polidoro. In fact, she pretty much guided me most of the way. I'm so very thankful for her expertise and patience when it came to designing the experiment. I've been in her lab for a year now and I feel comfortable doing a couple of the protocols on my own. But with being a bio major, I still struggle with some environmental chemistry concepts. This is where I've understood the importance in asking questions. Even if I felt like they may not be important or that I should know this already, I still asked anyway.
So if there is a big takeaway for me during this months' thesis work, it's the importance in asking as many questions as possible. It is a learning experience after all. Doing this has helped broaden my understanding, cover all the basics, and learn from someone who been in the same shoes.
I'm sharing an image of my samples in jars, dosed with pesticides. I'll keep you posted on my project in another blog!
