Internship can teach you 2 things: Give you hands on experience in your
field of study OR make you realize some things that you don’t want to do
for the rest of your life. My experience at the University of Wyoming
as a Bioinformatics intern lead me to believe that protein docking
wasn’t going to be my pursuit. I did a lot of protein docking studies at
the Jessica Liberles Lab there using various programs available. Over
the period I realized that protein docking wasn’t fun for me. I wanted
to write programs, create new things rather than use already written
programs to do things. So after I came back, I switched my major to
Computer Science w/ Bioinformatics Emphasis and now I am learning about
how to do what I wanted to do, write programs. This also opened a new
window of opportunities for me. I would encourage everyone to start
early looking for internships and do as many as you can. You might find a
lab that is interesting to you and where you want to pursue you
graduate program as well.
For more information visit: http://www.uwyo.edu/.
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