Undergrad was long. Long and tedious. Although there was a good amount of social interaction to keep us going, and in the later years of undergrad the courses were more detailed (and therefore more intellectually challenging and exciting), it was still a little bit like torture sometimes.

Research is really, honestly exciting. And I don’t care who calls me a geek – I like to think of it as passion. It’s especially exciting when you work for so long to get somewhere, and you finally reach your goal. Research is exciting because you don’t quite know what the true outcome will be, you are working based upon a hypothesis, an idea, and you are observing and learning about things that no one else has before.

(and it’s so pretty!!)