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So my summer took an interesting turn. I was going to look into TA-ing a gen chem lab, but in short, I got offered another job in the chem dept, which is pretty much contributing to developing the new biochem lab course syllabus (an upper level, major req course that I had to take next year anyway).
Compensation is generous (imo) but more importantly, it sounds much more fun than taking points off for having the wrong number of sig figs or making sure people don't mess up in lab. I'd instead be trying out (multiple times if needed) the lab experiments that these biochem professors want to put in the syllabus for next year, see how long it takes, and how to improve the lab/yield by changing some materials, concentrations of reagents, etc.
It sounds like so much fun, so I'm pretty sure I'm going to take this instead of a TA position. But do you think this "activity" will show any likable traits in adcoms' point of views? Since I am applying this cycle, I would like to consider that a bit also...
Compensation is generous (imo) but more importantly, it sounds much more fun than taking points off for having the wrong number of sig figs or making sure people don't mess up in lab. I'd instead be trying out (multiple times if needed) the lab experiments that these biochem professors want to put in the syllabus for next year, see how long it takes, and how to improve the lab/yield by changing some materials, concentrations of reagents, etc.
It sounds like so much fun, so I'm pretty sure I'm going to take this instead of a TA position. But do you think this "activity" will show any likable traits in adcoms' point of views? Since I am applying this cycle, I would like to consider that a bit also...