建立自信

Just 2 months into my Ph.D., I was on the verge of quitting. I felt out of my depth, and my broken English left me struggling to keep up with my colleagues. At lab meetings, the conversation progressed so quickly that by the time I understood a question, the discussion had already moved on. My difficulty following my supervisor’s instructions led to me using the wrong volume of water in a sample, ruining an experiment. In a presentation, I talked about “gene dilution” instead of “gene deletion,” the silence that followed making me blush with embarrassment. I didn’t know how I was going to make it through my studies. …