So life as a graduate student is very open-ended.
There's a lot less structure in my day than
there was as a typical undergraduate taking
five courses and a lab.
And I think it's a bit difficult to adapt
to, but ultimately I think it really helps
build me executive functioning skills and
my skills as a researcher.
I'm an experimentalist, so I spend a lot of
time in the lab when I can.
Sometimes it's very frustrating trying to
align the same bit of optics again and again,
it can sometimes be frustrating.
But ultimately I really like the hands-on
component, to be able to tinker in the lab,
build something tangible, and getting data.
That is the most exciting thing.
