MSM Protein Technologies Inc.; Medford, MA

I worked in the cancer research lab helping my mentors with various experiments and planning of experiments. I analyzed experimental data, conducted several experiments on my own, and learned about several different processes.

I would rate this internship as average in most areas and would recommend it to other students because it was a great stepping stone from university to real life research. They threw me in the water when I first arrived at the program but I am glad they did. It pushed me to figure things out on my own.

The only thing I would change was that there was a slight language barrier because most of the individuals at the company speak Russian as their primary language. Although I speak Russian, having my education all in English made it a bit difficult at times to understand exactly what was going on at a molecular basis. Understanding someone in another language was difficult at times and some questions were left unanswered due to the language barrier.