One of the ingredients of the chaos stew that I was dealing with through April was having what would have been an amazing summer experience fall through. One of the reasons I was so upset about it was that I'm planning to pursue residency after graduating and from what I understand, it's beneficial to have a demonstrated continual interest in the field. I've got over three years of lab animal work already under my belt, a year of research and involvement in our school's lab animal club, but I was really hoping to continue the trend this summer. So I can't help but feel a bit panicky about having absolutely nothing lined up for the summer after my wedding.

I started hunting around online today and found a couple of options that aren't lab animal and are quasi-research-ish. So I'm going to get my applications done this weekend (in all of my spare time, right?) and cross my fingers. Because I really, really don't know what else I can do.