The NCBS rotation lets you taste three labs like different greens from my patch—you learn by touching the work, not just reading the proposal. Daily life is less about glamorous discovery and more about the patient weeding and watering of experiments, with comradeship over tea getting you through. Yet, choosing a group felt less like a free choice and more like ‘bhogobanor ichha’, as funding and project availability often decide your path. I saw brilliant peers swayed by a PI’s reputation only to find the lab’s reality was a different soil altogether.
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