Connor Lee

Officially defended my thesis AND PASSED. Photo- from my thesis. Each color represents a different species of freshwater mussels detected with eDNA in southwest Louisiana. #eDNA #environmentalDNA #freshwatermussels #freshwatermussel

The scale is wrong. Don’t mind that.

Flora is not a fan of hearing this presentation for the 20th time

MY THESIS IS HERE

The 3 branches of science

After successfully defending my MSc thesis, I have a few thoughts about my experience and would like to share them for anyone just starting graduate studies or thinking about it. Hopefully, this will give more perspective about the whole process including the good and the bad! 🧵

Officially done with ALL DNA extractions for my thesis!!! Now time for hundreds of PCR reactions 🕺🏻

Me in the back 👁👁

Hiking dump ft. Carissa and mount St. Helen

Having fun at #ESA2023. We did have to take a quick break to go hiking this morning but back to the conference for the evening 🕺🏻

Money, money, money, money -Mr. Krabs. 📸@ErikNatiJohnson

Happy Beginning of Pride Month🏳️‍🌈. Be out and loud and do something gay this month (Brunch).

I for some reason didn’t take any photos at this years 2023 Louisiana @AmFisheriesSoc conference so here’s a crappy phone screenshot, with the text messed up, of my poster. Such a great time with great people 🕺🏻

This is 1000% a joke

@SolomonRDavid is a harsh judge. He probably tanked my scores.

Smiling before I learned I didn’t win any awards

Recent trip to Grand Isle, LA. Fun times

Late night eDNA extractions. This is a photo of a pretty unique looking filter (usually they are completely brown)

a slander page after the acknowledgements page for the people who have wronged me

When all your friends get to do cool oyster things and I’m at home sick 🥲