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 # A tutorial for git for the VKC Lab
 
 This is a repo for learning about how to use `git`.
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+By Becca Gilbert 
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+#Summer Goals#
+##Project goals for the summer##
+  A. Develop an organizational system that keeps me on track and everyone in the loop 
+    1. I work best when I keep very detailed records of everything 
+	B. Start doing transcriptomic work 
+		1. Also involves developing really good inoculations 
+		2. Fist set with one time point, second one with multiple time points
+	C. AFM 
+    1. Possibly develop methods paper (really few papers on AFM with anaerobic samples) 
+    2. Could produce really good figures 
+    3. Could do this when I come to Wellesley 
+##Professional goals for the summer## 
+	A. Science Writing 
+		1. Continue working with Sophie’s paper 
+		2. Starting to write more things 
+		3. Developing a thesis project by the end of the summer 
+	B. Presentation Skills 
+		1. Present at either Tanner or Rhulman this year 
+	C. Improve my computer skills 
+		1. Working with Kevin, Sophie, and Lily 
+		2. What is involved with transcriptomic work?