Will I end up looking like Tom Hanks in Castaway?

So, I decided to take a position as a Directed Research Fellow with the Ocean Discovery Institute. The way I see It, graduate school will take up most of my time, so this is an opportunity to spend my last summer doing what I love—doing science with hood kids. ODI is an organization that works out of City Heights, the one neighborhood in San Diego that reminds me of those where I grew up. I am now in Bahia de Los Angeles about to spend the next five weeks sleeping in a cot in 100-degree Fahrenheit weather. I’m looking forward to getting to know my crew! I’ve only met with them twice before, but they seem like a group of awesome kids! We are the photobiology team and we will be looking at the evolutionary benefits of kleptoplasty in a marine sea slug Elysia diomedea. Wish us luck!