My experiential learning experience this semester was generally different than the experience that my classmates had. I was fortunate enough to be able to continue to work in a lab that I had previously worked in before, so I was comfortable in my environment and had extensive repertoire with my mentors. Overall, my experience pushed me to explore more molecular biology techniques, practice mentoring, and strengthen my ability to problem solve and think critically for my projects as well as when I was trying to help others. This type of learning for me goes well beyond a traditional classroom, in the problem solving and critical thinking especially. A lab has a large whiteboard where ideas are thrown, tangled, and grappled with until a problem has been solved or a new experiment is created. This type of process and scientific thinking is not exercised in a regular classroom to the same degree, and continuing to work in a research lab feels imperative to my long term...