• Question: whats your best experiance/memory of being a scientist (what makes it enjoyable?)

    Asked by 10brumona to Christina, Colin, Jess, Samaneh, Steve on 19 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Jess Bean

      Jess Bean answered on 19 Jun 2013:

      One of the best things about my PhD (and I am very lucky in this!) is that I have travelled all around the world as part of my work 🙂 So far I have been to Germany, Austria, Singapore and Thailand – others in my group have been to the USA and Australia.

    • Photo: Steven Gardner

      Steven Gardner answered on 19 Jun 2013:

      I worked on a problem for several weeks. Trying to run a simulation that made some sense (and didn’t give an answer which said everyone should be blind!). It was working and I was getting really frustrated and then all of a sudden I had a ‘lightbulb’ moment. I ran the simulation and everything worked as is should do. When I saw it work I was so happy I got up and did a little dance. Unfortunately I share an office so my next act was explaining to my friends why with a very red face!

    • Photo: Christina Pagel

      Christina Pagel answered on 19 Jun 2013:

      I like Jess’ answer! you definitely do get to travel – the best travel I think is either marine biologists or space physics/astronomy! When i was doing space physics, most conferences are near telescopes which are always out of cities and often in beautiful places – so in 3 years i got to go Hawaii twice, Montana and New Mexico in mainland America and my friends went to Chile, Australia, Arizona etc… now i tend to go a bit more boring places but I still go abroad for work a couple of times year and I guess I have been to INdia and Nepal for work in the last 2 years so can’t complain!

      my nicest experience at work right now is that we’re visiting various hospitals in England that do heart surgery in children because I wrote some Excel software that they can use to help them in their work – so far (touch wood!) it’s worked really well in the hospitals and the doctors say they love it, so that’s nice to hear and makes slogging away at getting it as good as possible all worth it!

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