Alright, I decided to try out working in a lab. I'm faced with the choice between several labs I know little about besides what little I'm able to glean off the net. Its far from certain that any will take me but I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.
I'm interested in bioinformatics/computational in the context of biomedical type work. Unfortunately bioinformatics/computational stuff is the kind of thing that is too new to have many practitioners in most academic institutions.
There's one place which focuses on computational studies and evo morphology. Not really interested at all in the evolution part.
There's another place that fits the bill but from research appears to have no funding and perhaps no students either.
Other than that there are three other labs which are more of your traditional wetlab biomed focused, one of them at least appears to have funding and a healthy team, the other one has a younger PI who as an advisor might be better positioned to help me, the last focuses on a topic slightly more to my interest but information about it is hard to come by and from second hand sources the PI may not be as approachable.
I've been thinking about a decision and it isn't easy. I've heard horror stories about picking a lab with an ahole or one where you go nowhere. I keep worrying about bad consequences if I contact/reject too many and I'm caught between a desire to probe for as much information as possible and simply playing it safe and making up my mind sooner. Anyone else experience this sort of situation?