Question: Are there any tips you could give me to help me because I'm doing work experience in a funeral home?

Adam Washington answered on 12 Nov 2019:

The best tip that I can tell you is to learn what you can during this work experience, because I’ve never met another scientist who worked in a funeral home. That might sound like a bad thing, but it’s going to be a huge help. One of the best advantages that you can have as a scientist is a unique perspective or experience. The most important research often looks obvious in hindsight, but only because someone came along and looked at the problem in a new way.

A colleague of mine recently completed her PhD, with the capstone of the project being a full 3D model of a beetle scale. The beautiful model she create was only possible because she prepared the sample absolutely perfectly for the measurement. No one else had managed to prepare one of these samples nearly this well. However, her interest in fashion and stitching gave her the steady hands and patience with the micromanipulator that no one else in our building could have matched.

In a more famous example, Richard Feynman ultimately won his Nobel prize because someone asked a question about quantum mechanics that turned out to be oddly similar to his interest in throwing dinner plates like a discus.