• Question: In your opinion what is the best thing about being a scientist and why?

    Asked by anon-201732 to Sophia, Sarah, Meirin, George, Emily, Andy on 5 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: Sarah O'Sullivan

      Sarah O'Sullivan answered on 5 Mar 2019:

      You get to take things that you’ve learnt and apply them to new ideas and concepts and it generally has a good purpose behind it so it helps people too. It’s also very interesting and there’s always new things to be discovered

    • Photo: Andy Buckley

      Andy Buckley answered on 5 Mar 2019:

      Learning new stuff. All. The. Time. Keeps your brain supple 🙂

    • Photo: George Fulton

      George Fulton answered on 6 Mar 2019:

      You get to work with some really intelligent people on really difficult problems. This means you constantly learn new things and that is very rewarding. There is also a strong sense of mentoring in the science community and I think this is something quite unique.

    • Photo: Sophia Pells

      Sophia Pells answered on 6 Mar 2019:

      I love that I am constantly learning new things and solving problems. For me it means that my job never gets boring.

    • Photo: Meirin Oan Evans

      Meirin Oan Evans answered on 7 Mar 2019:

      I love that if you have a question about how something works the way it does, the answer may not be on the internet, or even known by any other person in the world. In these cases, you have to test out the question yourself and you could be the first person to know this piece of information!

    • Photo: Emily Lewis

      Emily Lewis answered on 13 Mar 2019:

      Discovering new things people may never have known before! Meeting lots of people doing cool things. Travelling to new countries, getting paid for something I really enjoy!

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