5 weeks of EXP? That's almost a sin. Earlier in July, the grad student I’m working with, David, emailed me about his 2-week field trip to Costa Rica to collect data on a special type of bat with suction cup sticky disks (Thyroptera tricolor). This affected the first week of my original 6-week experience and had me reduced to 5-weeks, but he came up with another project that I would be working on. I remember earlier in sophomore year when Dr. Peretz gave her initial EXP presentation and told us not to pack our schedules for the summer if we planned to do EXP. But that’s exactly what I did. I played a lot of golf over the first half of the summer. A college commitment was my goal but that didn’t go as planned. I did bring home two trophies though. So I had my 6 weeks cut down to 5, but my summer was already planned out and the Airbnb booked. For week 0, I stayed in the Airbnb in Federal Hill, Providence to work on my common app and began my summer homework. I also read ...