Oakland University

Graphic Design Intern

May 2022 • Rochester Hills, MI

What I liked

I like all the connections I have made with the OU community.

What I wish was different

I love this experience! Working at my school has benefitted me so much.

Advice

Apply even if you are nervous! You never know what will happen.

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Lab Assistant

March 2021 • Rochester Hills, MI

What I liked

This experience helped me strengthen my lab skills and allowed me to receive the proper training to put towards my HC thesis. Through training under Dr. Wendell, and having him as my mentor for my thesis, I have been able to acquire valuable lessons and experiences that I wouldn't have learned anywhere else.

What I wish was different

My confidence in myself slowly grew, but I wish that from the beginning I would have believed in myself more. One of the core principals of science is that everything is changing each day, and sometimes your experiments won't give you the yield you were expecting. And that is okay! I just wish I would have been a bit nicer to myself and not immediately assuming that I failed when I got a different result than expected.

Advice

Never hesitate to reach out to a professor you admire! If I had not reached out to Dr. Wendell to ask him for advice about genetics, my future, and lab research, I do not know where I would be today. The opportunity to work with him and grow in the lab has helped me so much as a student, and I look forward to be able to share my knowledge with other students like myself.

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