March 12th I received the dreadful news saying that classes have been cancelled and the school had closed down for the rest of the semester due to COVID-19. While many of us knew this was coming, it was nonetheless still a shock for myself and many others who do research in wet labs. I found myself frantically grabbing as much of my things as I could carry home from my office that I thought I might possibly need and braced myself for working from home. I naively thought that

Work from home. It is every wet lab scientists worst nightmare. All jokes aside I hope everyone and their families are staying safe and healthy during these uncertain times. As a PhD candidate #WFH has been a challenge for me as I would be spending a majority of my time at school performing experiments if the lab was opened. I am not really at a point where I should be working on my thesis, so this has been a really weird transition for me (especially since I'm such a workaho