Bio-Physics

Most of the Chinese group members just sorta ignore me.The word isolation is good cause it describes exactly what it was like. The only real good in the first group is the research. I really like it. But, over the course of the summer I didn't get to really know any of the chinese group members so I dunno why it'd be different in the future. Also I'm not saying the people in the second group are great. But on the other hand they are initially friendly to me, which is an improvement over group one, it's like in one I know interactions with most other people will be bad while in the other yea it's some what unknown but at worst it's just as bad as group I Thank you both for your advice.

Right so there are two groups which I am looking at: Group one Worked for this summer Love the research 8th year prof, all grads have gotten either professorships, decent jobs or high powered postdocs, he just got full professorship ~20 people (grads+post docs) Group dynamic is not so good. I'm an American and the language of the lab is basically Chinese. Group two Haven't worked for I like the research, I could do it, but I don't like it as much. 6th year prof, only graduated a few students but so far they've all done decently enough for themselves. ~12 people Even though the professor is Chinese as well as about 5 of the students the group language is English. both groups churn out papers and are pretty hardcore with respect to work hours (which I can handle) Dunno after typing this out (I had a bit more but deleted it) it's really should I do research I like less to be in a group with a better dynamic? Any advice? (I have to chose by the end of the month and I can't do a rotation in group 2)