As another week comes to a too-soon end, I am forced to wonder where my summer has gone and what has happened to the eight weeks that I thought would take forever. Over the course of this internship, I would say that I have been forced to accept time constraints probably more than I have ever had to do so. I have learned to wait for cells to grow, for enzymes to digest proteins, for things to incubate — wow, there has been a lot of waiting. Right now, I’m still waiting for my results. I think I have a good grasp of the science behind my work, and I’m able to run different protocols. But most of my data is still incomplete, so the next two weeks will be a dash to accumulate as much data as possible.
Since the time crunch is making me nervous, I have decided to finish this post as optimistically as I know how.
I have a dream that one day my experiment will be complete. I have a dream that my gene editing will be able to correctly edit the genome of the cell line that I am using. I have a dream that my results will be meaningful to our understanding of innate immune mechanisms.
I have a dream today!
