I had a summer stipend to use and every lab I applied to rejected me. So with only a few days left to apply for the stipend, I see Heather’s post in an honors email and immediately apply. That sounds bad but I desperately wanted to be involved in a lab over the summer. I had previously been thinking about unique independent research projects I could do and the main idea included water quality, so there was some connection. I’m really glad all those other labs rejected me, haha.