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I'm currently a freshman undergrad and have been in a research lab for about 2-3 weeks now. At first, it seemed to go relatively smooth but the past week, I've been performing poorly to the extent that my supervisor (a grad student, who's a really nice guy) even seemed to get frustrated.
I do fairly well in academics but when it comes to labs, I just feel extremely clueless and stupid. I feel like I get extremely nervous/tense and consequently forget about common sense at times. Like I said, the grad student, who rarely gets upset, even implied that I wasn't using my brain. I ended up delaying about 2 hours worth of his time.
It would be nice to hear everyone else's experiences. Did you do just as bad, or were you just always good in the lab environment and had hardly any trouble?
EDIT: I just also wanted to add that there's another freshman undergrad in the lab with me. We started relatively the same time but she's way ahead of the game than I am. She rarely makes mistakes (or far fewer less than I do) and it's clear my supervisor prefers her over me in terms of competence.
I do fairly well in academics but when it comes to labs, I just feel extremely clueless and stupid. I feel like I get extremely nervous/tense and consequently forget about common sense at times. Like I said, the grad student, who rarely gets upset, even implied that I wasn't using my brain. I ended up delaying about 2 hours worth of his time.
It would be nice to hear everyone else's experiences. Did you do just as bad, or were you just always good in the lab environment and had hardly any trouble?
EDIT: I just also wanted to add that there's another freshman undergrad in the lab with me. We started relatively the same time but she's way ahead of the game than I am. She rarely makes mistakes (or far fewer less than I do) and it's clear my supervisor prefers her over me in terms of competence.
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