{"id":363,"date":"2021-08-19T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T13:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/careerservices\/?p=363"},"modified":"2021-08-19T09:00:58","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T13:00:58","slug":"ending-summer-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/careerservices\/2021\/08\/19\/ending-summer-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Ending Summer Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most rewarding part of my summer research experience is learning that I do want to go to graduate school and pursue a career in research. At the start of the summer, I was teetering back and forth on whether I should get a job following graduation, but now I am fully focused on applying to Ph.D. programs. I\u2019ve also met some amazing people this summer. I don\u2019t think I would have enjoyed summer research as much if it weren\u2019t for them making everyday fun. The most challenging part of this summer was realizing the things I didn\u2019t know that I didn\u2019t know. Surprisingly, though I have great time management during the school year, I didn\u2019t know that I didn\u2019t know how to properly manage my time. Balancing lab and personal things like socializing, cooking, exercising, or even just relaxing was extremely difficult for me and it came as a huge shock. I also didn\u2019t know that I\u2019d have as tough a time organizing all my work and data. I\u2019ve always considered myself a highly organized person, but with multiple test tubes of the same thing but made for different purposes, it was easy to get very confused. I\u2019m very glad I\u2019m learning all of this before graduate school.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_364\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-364\" style=\"width: 372px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-364\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/careerservices\/files\/2021\/08\/CA.1-300x209.png\" alt=\"Our group lab photo. In order of foreground to background: Nick Socci, Olivia Borges, Victoria Caruso, Me, James Russo, Mike Quinnan, and Dr. Randich. \" width=\"372\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/careerservices\/files\/2021\/08\/CA.1-300x209.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/careerservices\/files\/2021\/08\/CA.1-624x435.png 624w, https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/careerservices\/files\/2021\/08\/CA.1.png 715w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 372px) 100vw, 372px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-364\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our group lab photo. In order of foreground to background: Nick Socci, Olivia Borges, Victoria Caruso, Me, James Russo, Mike Quinnan, and Dr. Randich.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Christina Alfano &#8217;22<br \/>\nBiochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most rewarding part of my summer research experience is learning that I do want to go to graduate school and pursue a career in research. At the start of the summer, I was teetering back and forth on whether I should get a job following graduation, but now I am fully focused on applying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":357,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/careerservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/careerservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/careerservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/careerservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/357"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/careerservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/careerservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/careerservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions\/366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/careerservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/careerservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/careerservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}