Picture it: August, 2003. Megan is sitting on a bench in Waggoner Hall at Western Illinois University, waiting for class to begin. Michelle strides up and sits next to her on the bench. The two had met earlier at a graduate lab assistant training course. The ever-courageous Michelle ventured “So, you’re a botanist too, then?” Megan (a diehard microbiologist) turned to Michelle with a look of pride and replied “NO! I’m a Microbiologist!!!” Despite this major and inconvenient difference, we still formed an immediate and unbreakable friendship which eventually turned into everlasting love (cue Nothing's Gonna Stop Us by Starship). Side Note: Neither one of us currently has a career in Botany OR Microbiology. :D