MadSci Network: Other
Query:

Re: WHY WOULD I LIKE TO BE A SCIENTIST OR NOT ?

Date: Sun May 10 14:46:26 1998
Posted By: David Winsemius, MadSci Admin
Area of science: Other
ID: 894382030.Ot
Message:

It is hard to know without knowing what you are like. Do you like asking 
questions and solving puzzles? Do you like keeping careful track of your efforts 
to understand problems? Do you like working with other scientists?

At the undergraduate level, the best way of finding out if a scientific career 
is for you is to do some real science. Get into a lab, even if you have to 
volunteer. Find out how slow it can be, how frustrating, how interesting and how 
finally rewarding the entire scientific process can be. There are so many 
different types of science underway, that I think an experimental approach to 
this question is definitely called for. Just do it.

David Winsemius, MD



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