I started working with Dave Muddiman and his team at the W.M. Keck FT-ICR Mass Spectrometry Lab at NC State on Tuesday.  It’s been an experience already!  Dr. Muddiman wanted to give me a choice of three different projects to work on.  Together we eliminated one, so then I had to do a little “light” reading to pick between the other two.  After a couple of days of reading and interpreting (thank goodness for the internet and Dr. Muddiman’s team), I have picked my project.  Once I can actually figure out how to phrase it properly, I will post it here.  We have to wait a few weeks until some materials come in before we get started on the actual experimentation, so until then it’s time to go hard into the background and see if I can understand this thoroughly.  Off to study!