Put yourself in the readers shoes

After seeing how 20.109 is run, it was nice that we have lecture for an hour each time before lab because this allowed me to gain a very clear understanding of what was actually happening in our experiments. Although I had the necessary information, one thing that was hard for me was sorting through all the information that we had been given to find specifics since sometimes we went over a topic many times in different ways (which was very helpful) but then it was hard to find those specific notes from that one time we talked about a topic. One way I might be able to combat this is to learn to better navigate the wiki so I can find information easier. 

Another note is that I ended up really liking Benchling for lab notebook entries and Prism to do the data analysis and graphs rather than Excel. Although I ended up with many many graphs, they all looked pretty professional and were easy to manipulate with 95% confidence intervals too. 

Although we are getting lots of instruction on our writing, I still need to work a lot on that but I think it should hopefully get better over time. The templates on the wiki helped a lot with that such as this straightforward information because it tells me the basics of what is needed without getting complicated with nuances. 

This is helpful for me because I often forget that the reader doesn't know all the things that I do and that even the most basic given things for me might need to be laid out to the reader. One more thing I would like to do is go to the Comm Lab since they would be a helpful outside source, it is just difficult to schedule appointments with everything else going on!

Emma