Internship Blog

After my first week of internship, there are many feelings rushing through me: excitement, exhaustion, passion and confusion. I am excited for next week, and ready to continue working on my project. I feel exhausted - but it’s a good type of exhaustion - from the work I've been doing. I feel passionate about my project and the work I’m doing. I’m confused from all the things I’m learning, but it’s keeping me thinking, and I know I will understand it all eventually. I’m interning virtually at Dr. Brian M. Paegel’s drug discovery lab, where I will be learning and using R , a data science programming language to create Monte Carlo simulations for combinatorial chemistry (don’t worry - I’ll go deeper into what I’m doing in my week 2 blog post). My mentors are Dr. Paegel himself, as well as two graduate students who will be helping me on my internship journey. My hopes for this internship are to really learn and dive into something not completely ‘new,’ but something that I can really t...