

Reads the method until she can explain why each step exists, then runs it without supervision.
Writes down the runs that failed, which is where the useful part usually is.
Tutors intro biology because explaining a thing is how she finds the hole in her own understanding.
"Naomi runs her own experiments and troubleshoots them before she comes to me. That is a graduate-student habit, not an undergraduate one."
"She rewrote the tutoring materials for intro bio and the pass rate went up. She just did it."