As I was talking to a few of my fellow researchers, one question seemed to pop up pretty consistently. This one question was: “What if we never get a phage?” This pretty much defines what we are all feeling now: confused and hopeless. Many of us are on our 6th-10th soil sample…its pretty discouraging. The hard part is, is that we can do nothing differently. We have to continue digging up soil and going through the same procedure. And we are all wondering, “What if I never get a phage…”