Your Thoughts: Research Culture and Environment

It's Monday night and you're likely back at it -- I hope you were able to find time over the weekend for some rest and relaxation!

Week 3 Blog Topic:   Every one of you will have unique and individual experience when it comes to the research environment and culture you've been invited to join this summer.  Faculty, even institutions, have their own identity and way of conducting research, and not one works the same as another.  What is your impression of the research environment, in contrast to what you may have been expecting?  Have you discovered something about working in a research laboratory (or other) that surprised you, something you didn't expect?  What has been positive from the research environment, what has been less positive? 

Alyssa