What a week!

This week was a rough week for me. Everything started first with a cold that I caught and which did not give me any chance to breathe just for a second. And on top of that I lost my cell phone in the library downstairs and i have not found it until now. It was horrible! Anyways life goes on and I have to be strong and fulfill my engagement. Since I finished the practical part of my research project, I was in lab this week trying to finish up writing my lab report and the poster for the presentation at ASU conference. It is on march 4th and it is around the corner so I better work hard to get it done on time. I spent this week in lab trying to write the introduction. But unfortunately, I could not figure out something good. For some reason, I am still having trouble writing the introduction of my project. I spent countless of hours trying to research if anybody has done a similar research but unfortunately I did not see anything similar. Last week, I started with the material and methods part which I finished it this week. After that, I began the results and discussion part. I have all the results of my tests recorded in my lab notebook so I used it to create a spreadsheet on Microsoft Excel in which I documented my results. Now I just need to insert this spreadsheet in the results and discussion part along with my two phylogenetic trees that I already made. After that I will focus on drawing a conclusion of my experiment and then go back to the introduction. I hoping by that time I will have the inspiration to figure out something good. As usual, I was in the STEM Program this week helping student with their and any questions they might. It is a great pleasure for me to be able to impact students' life and give them the taste of success. I really enjoy doing that! For next week in the lab, I will try to finish the component of my poster presentation and start to build the actual for the conference. I am looking forward to finishing this poster in the next two weeks so that I can have some time to revise before March 4th.

Below is the picture of a tree similar to the one i constructed.