P.C. Shannon

I started my first rotation today. I am in Krish Roy’s lab in the biomedical engineering department. As expected, the first day was filled bureaucractic hoops (never try to get a key at UT) and many papers to read. For the time being, I am assisting with some tissue culture work. I’m not sure exactly what’s going on, so it’s overwhelming. I need to ask more questions, but that can be difficult on the first day. I don’t know how interested I am in the tissue culture work. I got put on it because that’s what the other biologist in the lab is doing, but believe it or not, I am actually more interested in the engineering side of things. That’s certainly where the cool stuff is happening — and the cool stuff is why I’m there.