Research Hours for Dry Lab

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neutraltheory

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Hi!

The research I do is computational in nature, meaning that (especially now) the majority of the work I do isn't done physically in the lab. Do these hours spent outside of the lab count for AMCAS research hours?

Thanks!
 
Fencer said:
Yes... but only those working w data, reading a manuscript, etc. Not those aimlessly surfing the internet. 🙄
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I promise we dry lab researchers do a lot of work 🙁 We just do a lot of it behind the scenes (most of my time is spent trying to get my code to work and trying to find efficient ways/methods for doing what analyses/work we need to do).
 
Fencer said:
Not those aimlessly surfing the internet. 🙄
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Wasn’t expecting such a personal attack when I logged on.


*switches apps to twitter*


(edit: /s)
 
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It wasn't personal. You are asking an opinion from someone in MD/PhD ad com. Research is research whether is wet or dry. However, AdComms have a higher amount of suspicion when considerable hours haven't translated into poster, presentations, and manuscripts. Clearly, breaking thru coding or data brick walls is hard. If a project has taken much longer in being productive, the LORs must reflect that. In part, the requirement for research LOR from each substantial experience is to interpret those research hours. Best wishes... I apologize if you felt targeted.
 
Fencer said:
It wasn't personal. You are asking an opinion from someone in MD/PhD ad com. Research is research whether is wet or dry. However, AdComms have a higher amount of suspicion when considerable hours haven't translated into poster, presentations, and manuscripts. Clearly, breaking thru coding or data brick walls is hard. If a project has taken much longer in being productive, the LORs must reflect that. In part, the requirement for research LOR from each substantial experience is to interpret those research hours. Best wishes... I apologize if you felt targeted.
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I believe that pretysmitty was being sarcastic and noting that us computational types can get defensive regarding the twitter feed that may or may not be open directly adjacent to the terminal we are using to write code
 
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