RA experience

[lazybutt26]

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Hi everyone,

I am about to fill out the application for 2018 and have come up with a question as to whether it is a good idea to put RA experience I had for a little over 3 months. The biology professor was a guy who published on Science and a really smart guy but an dingus..at my university. He wanted me to work full time not paid and devote all of my hours to his research even when I was at home-doing literature research and stuff. I just couldn't commit to that because I had other things to do like volunteer, MCAT studying and especially I had to get paid being a non-traditional student and all, I had to pay rent and ****. So the professor fired me when I told him that I couldn't commit all of my time to his research.

The problem is, the experience was so much fun and invaluable for me-I am a psychology and bio minor. I've done psy research before but since I was leaning towards to neuro, I wanted to do research on neuro. I did dissections, genetic mapping and ran experiments-

can I put that on the application? I am worried that schools might contact this guy for reference and he will give a bad rep(he was one of those OCD-almost aspergic person-not a nice guy unfortunately)

 

[lazybutt26]

Any one?!

Please help?!

 

[ndafife]

No one is gonna contact anyone about it unless what you write about doesn't add up.

Don't expect it to be of a ton of benefit to your application, and definitely be ready to fix your attitude as you talk about it in case someone asks about it come interviews.

 

[lazybutt26]

No one is gonna contact anyone about it unless what you write about doesn't add up.

Don't expect it to be of a ton of benefit to your application, and definitely be ready to fix your attitude as you talk about it in case someone asks about it come interviews.

Thanks for your advice!