<p>Regarding your first lab (was it research?), was it during freshman year? Because in your post, you said if you could’ve redone college, you would’ve done research freshman year. </p>
<p>I applied for meager lab-assistant jobs on campus, and I got turned down probably because they took upperclassmen… so I thought if it’s hard enough for a freshman to get hired to autoclave test tubes, thought it must be even harder to get a research position.</p>