I am currently a biomedical engineering undergrad and have been working in a systems biology lab for the past two years. The post-doc I have worked under this entire time has just left our lab, and now I am working on my project all by myself. Unfortunately, it seems like everything in my experiments that could go wrong has gone wrong. It has all been extremely discouraging, especially now that I have no one to give me advice or to serve as a mentor, and I'm starting to freak out a little. My question is, what advice could you give in regards to not going completely crazy when your research project/experiments doesn't/don't go according to plan?
By the way, all of the answers you have given so far are awesome, I am nerding out just a little...or a lot :)
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Hi Dr. Vitetta!
I am currently a biomedical engineering undergrad and have been working in a systems biology lab for the past two years. The post-doc I have worked under this entire time has just left our lab, and now I am working on my project all by myself. Unfortunately, it seems like everything in my experiments that could go wrong has gone wrong. It has all been extremely discouraging, especially now that I have no one to give me advice or to serve as a mentor, and I'm starting to freak out a little. My question is, what advice could you give in regards to not going completely crazy when your research project/experiments doesn't/don't go according to plan?
By the way, all of the answers you have given so far are awesome, I am nerding out just a little...or a lot :)
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