A few days ago, I cracked open a fortune cookie with a message that I believe is extremely fitting of my experience working as a student intern this summer. It read, “Your road to glory will be rocky, but fulfilling.”
I think if I had gotten this fortune at the start of the summer, I likely would have scoffed at the message and it would have passed over my mind within the hour. I mean how rocky could the road be? It was the start of summer break meaning no homework, tests, quizzes, projects, grades, and presentations to fret over for a good amount of time. Contrary to the present time, as I ate lunch with my friend in the corner of UCSF’s Kalmanovitz Library, receiving the message towards the end of my internship made me reminisce on my many failures and small victories within the lab that brought me where I am today.
