My experience in the lab continues
to be great. On Monday, I had my weekly meeting with Kate. Since I finished a
lot of my projects, I got even more which was nice because they were different
from what I had been doing. They include identifying literature sources and
coding for experimental design. Also, I continue to work on recruitment for the
BABIES study. In order to do this, the other high school student and I came up
with a plan for places to contact, put up flyers, and hand out brochures. We emailed
many mother groups in the Bay Area as well. Along with recruitment, I also
continue to identify potential funding sources. For two of the potential
grants, I helped fill out the application and drafted the scientific
summary/essay for them.
On Tuesday, one of the faculty members
in the lab presented on her work about suicide ideation. It was an intense
topic, but the information presented continued to demonstrate how important the
work in our lab is. On Wednesday, we went over how to use a statistics program
which is really important knowledge. Also, before the meeting, the other high
school student and I had to go pay for a participant’s parking, so they gave us
a roll of quarters. When we got there, we were one quarter short, so we started
looking around on the ground for quarters. Then, this really nice child came up
to us and gave us a quarter, so that made our day.
On Thursday, we had our weekly lab
meeting and continued to discuss the Google project. This time, we had someone
involved with the project come and talk to us about our ideas and what Google wanted
from the project. That was really helpful and made us more directed in our
approach.
On Friday, we had a lab happy hour to say
goodbye to two full time members of the lab at a restaurant in downtown Palo
Alto. Kate was very nice and invited the other high school student and me, but
the other high student had to leave catch a flight. So, for the majority of the
time, I was the only summer RA there/only one who had not graduated college. I
sat near Kate and three other Ph.D. students who were all very nice people.
They were interested in what I had to say which made the experience even better.
It was really fun and great to get to know more of the members of the lab. Outside
of the lab, I continue to explore the Stanford campus and Palo Alto.
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