Or, how I accidentally became a member of a research group. Back in Spring, I signed up for the Manchester Gold Mentoring which is there for students to improve their CVs. I was assigned Samuel Purkiss as a mentor who is a MPhil student in Reinmar Hager's lab and he offered me and the other mentee (Marco) the opportunity to gain some lab experience by helping him with the work that he was doing with Mhd.Shadi Khudr (the lab's postdoc who designed the experiments) on aphids and daphnia. Initially, I was a bit reluctant to be in the building long or to do work on the group's computers but after some time I got used to it but throughout the summer I grew more comfortable and by July, I started coming in every day, as early as possible. I also have my own little desk space now. It has a folder where I collect data and papers, a book about Epigenetics that I bought but wanted to leave available to everyone. some blank paper and other stationary and most importantly the c
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