Hello, I'm a third year undergrad, I was accepted as a research intern to a prominent lab at the uni I attend. They told me they needed help with handling some data, I was immediately thrown into the world of bioinformatic transcriptome analysis. I have 0 experience with python, R, really anything outside of very basic bash and Linux. I was given a free transcriptomics course and told to run through the course + read literature on what we're studying at the same time. So far, I'm a month in and still struggling immensely. I'm getting a better handle on R, FastQC + Kallisto are crazy easy for me, but the downstream pipeline is still so very daunting to me. There's a ton of statistics to learn on top of actual competence in data wrangling + analysis through R. Is it normal to feel overwhelmed? My postdocs are very kind, but I just don't feel like I operate at this level yet. I was just studying for my MCAT, still trying to wrap my head around Physics 2 equations.…