This is my first exposure to doing anything on the command line, and it’s been quite an experience thus far. I will say that it is extremely satisfying when everything works like it’s supposed to, and it’s relatively easy once I understand what is going on. I would say that I generally understand everything that is happening, though things get a little fuzzy with the statistical analysis stuff because I just haven’t done a lot with that in the past. The whole mothur thing is still weird and confusing to me. I don’t know what it’s actually doing, but I know how to run it at least :). I really liked doing the chimera exercise because it all definitely made sense. I would honestly classify that whole exercise as a eureka moment because it sort of brought things together a bit and seemed more cohesive.