system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
What can I do, as a volunteer undergraduate lab assistant, to help the laboratory and make the most of the position?

I've just finished my first year of college, and, while I take a summer course, I'm working as a volunteer undergraduate lab assistant at a neuroscience laboratory whose work I find incredibly fascinating. While I am unpaid, I understand that I am still taxing the laboratory's resources (training, etc.), and, therefore, I want to be as helpful as possible.

How do I make the best impression on the lab? How can I appear helpful? What does success look like in this type of position? In the future, I would like to apply for a undergraduate research grant which would allow me to be paid and work on independent projects in the lab, but how do I, through my actions as a volunteer undergraduate lab assistant, convince the PI I am ready for independent research?
gpt
(1) Always try to do more than what you were asked to do, but don't screw things up. (2) Ask questions and be eager to learn, but don't ask the same stuff twice. (3) Learn to be organized: keep notes, write reports, response to email promptly, etc. 
I also started as a lab volunteer and eventually got the PhD offer from the PI. Congratulation, and good luck.