Joined Prof. Marlow's lab last fall to work on coral bleaching transcriptomics. First three months were rough — she's clearly brilliant but the bandwidth-per-student is approximately zero. Got two emails total in October.

Things picked up after I started showing up to her Thursday afternoon office hours. We have something like a real research relationship now and the project is genuinely interesting. But getting there required a level of self-direction I didn't expect.

If you don't already know what you want to work on, this lab will not provide it.