If you teach at a primarily undergraduate institution, then you know firsthand how challenging it is to get research done during the academic year. Resources are scarce, and most undergrads at a PUI can only commit a handful of hours a week in the lab...if that.
It's been so refreshing / stimulating / exhausting to be thinking about research again. With my research students on holiday for another week and a half, I have all day to myself to read, think, and write. The jump from very little research activity to fulltime lab work can be a bit of a shock to the system, as some of you have pointed out. For example, PUI prof wrote about her perspective in a recent post.
All I can hope for is a productive summer. It's hard enough to get funded in ANY research lab, let alone once just staffed by undergraduate researchers.*
*which is a post in and of itself!
