Today we held a lab dinner to celebrate recent accomplishments and share some of our highlights from the summer:
Shaila was thankful for all the fun social events - especially the smores night - and the delicious (and often free) food in our building. Dillon highlighted how much he enjoyed spending the summer in Utah and making new friends in the lab. Matt joked about staying up late to run a 3D-print with Dillon, which ultimately failed minutes after they left! Caleb's highlight of the summer was his first-author manuscript getting accepted (woohoo!) and Abby Citterman shared her excitement to be writing her first manuscript. Abby Harrison reflected on how much fun she had learning to soldier in the lab this summer and Wyatt's highlight was when he finally finished a new prototype after almost 80 hours of construction! And all that hard work isn't without reward; as Kennedy pointed out, the best part of the summer for her was finding out the lab has a massage chair! Adrian reflected on how fun it's been to watch the lab grow and to be apart of that growth. And to that, Brandon joked about his first trip to the lab when he waited on the elevator and walked through the building alongside a stranger, only to realize later that they shared the same destination and that stranger was his new labmate Adrian!
As for me, I'm grateful to have such an amazing group of people to work with every day and, like Adrian said, it's been an amazing to watch our lab grow. It's been a fun and productive summer - and we're all excited to keep the momentum going together!