Reflection

Hello, the two longitudinal studies that I have been assisting on for the past 3 weeks are ACCESS (Asthma Coalition for Community and Social Stress) and GUTS (Growing Up Today Study). I find my lab work to be something very new and unique because it is something I have not done before. Learning about a study that goes way back to the year 2000 and actually being research assisting in such an interesting study is wonderful.

I have found the fact about cortisol hormones being a person's saliva sample being used to understand the stress levels of an individual to be very interesting. (Yes, I have said it multiple times, but it's still cool). I found entering data onto a data base to be interesting when you look at the questionnaires and the answers they had respond or the comments they left.

I found that both field trips to Children's Hospital and the Animal Resource Center to be very interesting, because I learned new facts and careers and job possibilities that I never knew about. I didn't know what a pathology was before the field trip at Children's Hospital and I didn't know that rats are very smart, even smarter than dogs before the field trip at the Animal Resource Center.

I learn that there many possibilities at any college, you just have to be engaged and willing to work at it. Also that a lot of them like pancakes.