By: Vivian Hoang Research has a reputation for being a solitary post. You come up with a hypothesis, stage your conditions, run the experiment, analyze, and report. Hardly ever do people imagine the lone researcher conferring with others during any of these steps, much less working with anyone in the first place. My friends and I joke often about going into research to avoid social interaction, but from my experience so far in the REACH lab, this has been far from the truth!

By: Rebecca Austria As a first year coming into a research lab, I always felt like I had impossibly big shoes to fill. I sat quietly during lab meetings, stomach churning, panicked, and writing down everything I heard – desperate to make sense of it all. The world of academic research felt so foreign to me and because of this, I struggled to get a word in during meetings- not wanting to show my confusion or say the wrong thing in fear of looking dumb. I didn’t participate ful

By: Des Russell As a third-year, switching my major from biology to psychology last minute made me feel like I was behind. I had close to...