This summer, I am in Aiken, SC, working at the Savannah River Site, a former nuclear fuel plant. I am working at the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, more specifically. This is part of the NSF grant program called Research Experiences for Undergraduates. I'm really enjoying it (and I only have one week left), having made some good connections, done publishable research while set nearly on my own (though with a great safety net of my advisor and a post-doc who is supervising me), and definitely been fired up about graduate school.