Answer the question you selected for profile question 1 here (300 words):
In the last year of high school, I grew duckweed at different light intensities and measured its growth by measuring leaf area using ImageJ. However, the experiment went very poorly. This allowed me to learn a lot about well-designed experiments. For instance, I grew the plants on a bench in a classroom, where ambient light could have been a confounding variable. I also did not supplement the plants with nutrients during the experiment, which could have negatively affected growth. Although these variables affected all plants in the experiment, a better-designed experiment would have allowed me to easily resolve differences between treatment groups.