Hi all. I'll be starting graduate school in Neuroscience next fall and will have a year to perform 3 lab rotations. I am fairly sure of the PI I want to work with, and am curious if any of you believe if it is strategically wiser to rotate in their lab earlier in the year versus later. Part of me wants to rotate with them right away to see if its a good fit. But the other part worries that if I rotate early on, and then some other student rotates after me, that they might be more likely to be selected to join the lab, if funding permits only one person.
Has anyone had this experience or have any advice? I'm hoping I am thinking too much and that none of these primary vs. recency effects matter in this case.