This was one of my first posts on this blog. I was getting ready to finish my undergrad with no clue on what i was going to be doing that summer. I had applied to a bunch of different REU programs around the US and nothing was panning out. Finally, I had already agreed to help my buddy Parker (@kelpqueso, he posts really cool stuff on the interwebs) do his work out in Catalina and Anacapa. I then heard about this cool internship in Taiwan and applied with little hope that I would actually get it. I had nothing to lose and BAM there I am 3 months later living and working at an aquarium in Taiwan doing research on fish-coral interactions and I got to see all these cute sea turtles getting rehabbed.

I guess the moral of the story here is to take risks. It’s the only way to be successful in Science. Sometimes it fails (most of the time) but every now and again you get lucky. And when you get lucky, take advantage of it.Don’t turn it down hoping something better will come along.

push yourself out of your comfort zone. apply even if you don’t think you’ll get it. Go do science wherever you can