Lina's Story of Us
The goal of my project for the Sociology 1130 course is to identify the best practices and hurdles of undergraduate student researchers in the life sciences, ask how universities can create more supportive structures for students to navigate relationships with and communicate feedback to their mentors and professors, and propose changes to the system that will aid future student researchers in choosing lab experiences that are most tailored to their own expectations and desires.
In order to accomplish these goals, I sent out a survey over all the Harvard House lists to collect demographic and experiential information from student researchers in life sciences labs. I have chosen to highlight some of my findings below.