As I sat down to write this blog, I realized that 3 weeks from today I\u2019ll be presenting my research at symposium, and it truly feels like we just started! While my experience has been fast-paced, my research lab team has made great use of the time in terms of what I\u2019ve been able to participate in and contribute to. Overall, my main task has been working on my independent research project for the symposium. With the assistance of my mentor and project manager, I\u2019ve created a research question about sexual minority youth and binge drinking which I\u2019ve been exploring using a dataset from an intervention this lab has carried out recently.
Something I\u2019ve realized through this process is how much jargon and superfluous elements of the research experience have the potential to act as barriers for incoming students. Some of the tasks I\u2019m working on this summer sound much more intimidating than they are; for example, \u201cdata coding\u201d is just changing words to numbers but sounds like something you might need a CS degree for. I\u2019m learning for myself personally there are a lot of things I assumed were outside of my skillset simply because I didn\u2019t understand them, and I can imagine this phenomenon is worsened for those without the privileges I have.
I\u2019m really excited to bring some of my own struggles and assumptions I\u2019ve worked through to my UROP job next year, and I\u2019m grateful for this opportunity to refresh myself on what it\u2019s like to be an undergrad in a lab. Talk soon!
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