August 9, 2016
By: Margo Orlen
The past 8 weeks here at Duke this summer have been some of the most rewarding, challenging, and inspirational in my entire life. I cannot express my gratitude enough to the BSURF program, to Jason and Ron, and to my...
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August 5, 2016
By: Courtney Hill
When we came into this program, one of the first posts we wrote was about our expectations for the program. With this available, I thought it would be useful for me to reflect back on that post now, 8 weeks...
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By: Megan Jiao
I've had an amazing experience this summer in the B-SURF program. Before starting my research, I knew it would be an eye-opening experience one way or another, but I am ultimately still surprised by how much knowledge I've gained this...
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By: Moreen Njoroge
Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought. -Albert Szent-Gyorgy Approximately 8 weeks ago I was sitting in an airport in Hyderabad, India wondering how I was possibly going to catch...
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By: Susan Zheng
It’s the end of the program, but only the beginning of my scientific journey. In the past 8 weeks, I have made my first steps into research – and it’s been an amazing experience. During what felt like such a...
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August 4, 2016
By: Emre Kiziltug
BSURF has been a great summer experience for me. Prior to this program, I didn’t really have a substantial research experience and didn’t know exactly what it was like to go to lab every day and do experiments to answer...
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By: Elizabeth Snyder-Mounts
I have learned a lot this summer about a variety of different things, most of which began with the letter C (as you can probably tell from my title). Cells Learning about cell culture has been an interesting experience. I...
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By: Ajile Owens
This summer has certainly been one of amazing opportunities and surpassed expectations. Coming into this program, I'm not 100% sure what I expected, but one this if for sure, I definitely didn't think I would enjoy going to lab like...
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By: Ricardo Matias
I am very grateful to have been given the opportunity to participate in BSURF this summer. As a person that did not have any research experience going into the program, I am pleased by how much I have grown as...
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By: Yilin Yang
8 weeks ago, I stood in the airport on the other side of the planet, alone, with a 50-pound suitcase. I was kind of depressed, not only because I would again be 8300 miles away (I actually looked this number...
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By: Griffin Haas
This summer has been truly excellent. I've really enjoyed my research opportunity, and have loved every moment in lab. I came into the program excited, but a bit uncertain as to what to expect. My laboratory experience surpassed my hopes...
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By: Chad Munger
The faculty seminars were always brimming with new information, and not just on the speakers’ fields. Each offered advice to us as young scientists. The multitude of career paths by the faculty demonstrated the unpredictability of the future and helped...
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By: Hannah Ahrendt
I can’t believe that the eight weeks of BSURF are already over. Although on a day to day basis it sometimes seemed like I wasn’t learning much, looking back over the experience as a whole, I realized how much I...
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By: Melissa Horowitz
In the weeks before the beginning of the program, I was really unsure of what was to come, since I had absolutely no research experience. I entered Duke with an extreme interest in researching genetics, though I’m majoring in BME/ECE,...
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By: Demi Zhu
This summer has been a really enjoyable experience, and time has flown by so quickly. It feels like just yesterday that I moved into my apartment in 2015 Yearby, nervous about starting my first day of research and worrying about...
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By: Raj Borra
The last eight weeks here at Duke have been incredibly rewarding, and I'm shocked that the summer gone by so quickly. I'm grateful for a lot of the things I learned about research this summer, as I had no idea what...
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By: Casey Kuka
Wait, it's week eight already? NO!! Stop! Wait! I want to keep going. . . This summer has been such a valuable experience. I'm just going to list some of my favorite takeaways and such, based on my experience in...
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By: Emre Kiziltug
Throughout the BSURF, many distinguished faculty members from a variety of biological fields talked about their career paths as scientists and what kind of research they did. These talks helped me grasp the different aspects of different areas and what...
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