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First Abstract

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Today I submitted an abstract I helped write to a convention hopefully to be selected to present a poster there. I am super excited about this because I think it is so cool that I will have my name on a scientific abstract, especially one that I wrote.

This happened very quickly, Dr. Somarelli told me about it and asked me to have it done by the end of the next day. I had never written an abstract before so I was a little confused. This was also based on data that I had found, but I wasn't completely sure how to analyze it. One thing about Dr. Somarelli is that he is very focused on teaching me to learn how to figure things out for myself. He will provide excellent guidance but he never tells me exactly how to do an assignment. I worked hard on it for the little time I had and showed my work to him to be edited before it was submitted. I did not think that it was exceptionally good, not bad but I knew it could be better. But to my surprise, Dr. Somarelli was very pleased with what I had done for my first abstract ever. There were quite a few changes that had to be made but I think I did well on it overall.

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