yeah man I looked all through my email can ' t find anything I ' m sure I ' ve subscribed . it may just be my email account <| sep |> I ' m in a pretty similar situation . For my field Behavioral Neuroscience , this is a pretty common situation I work with live animals that need to be extensively trained before we can collect data , and we can only collect data from one animal at a time . All of that is to say it ' s a very slow process , and as an undergraduate , my entire three years in the lab have been doing work under PhD students . I think the best approach is to be honest like you ' re being with us . Discuss what you ' ve learned to do and how that knowledge was appliedwhat you ' ve actually done in your time in the lab . Then talk about your potential results , what the implications of those results are , and what your plans are for your independent project . My PI has talked to me a bit about his personal process when considering potential graduate students , and I think the biggest thing to keep in mind is that these aren ' t demigods on a higher plane of existence reading your application . they ' re people . They know that things don ' t always go perfectly , that things break or get messed up or don ' t get funded or sometimes just don ' t work out for whatever reason . They ' re not going to hold that against you if you ' re an otherwise viable candidate . Good luck fam , not sure about your field but most of my deadlines are 121 so it ' s almost over