Does this experience mean anything helpful towards grad school?

GenerationG
Sun, 02 Jul 2017 20:43:48 +0000

I’ll be a sophomore this year at college, and during my first year, I had a FWS labeled as a “Lab Assistant” for a professor. I’m planning to apply to grad school later down the road and, while that sounds nice to put on my application, it’s not the end of it. I don’t really get involved with the post-docs who are doing research in the lab; I’m more of what you’d call a Grunt Worker, cleaning flasks, test tubes, disposing of plant matter and bio-hazardous waste, etc.

I feel like I am going to have to go into extensive detail about what I did experience wise while in college and, if I just end up (in the most elegant and formal way possible) having to say that I basically was a glorified janitor, is the job basically meaningless (relatively speaking as interest experience in the field and lab, not experience in general)?

I should also clarify that I’m asking this because I was reoffered to come back and work for the lab again this year, but if I’m not doing actual research, then… you get the idea.