• Question: whats your favorite thing about being a scientist or working with other scientists?

    Asked by anon-201742 to Sophia, Sarah, Meirin, George, Emily, Andy on 6 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: Sarah O'Sullivan

      Sarah O'Sullivan answered on 6 Mar 2019:

      My favourite thing is that we get to take our knowledge and apply it to projects that have a purpose. We’re not just learning for the sake of learning or passing an exam, we’re trying to add to knowledge and solve problems with science!

    • Photo: Sophia Pells

      Sophia Pells answered on 7 Mar 2019:

      I love that I am always learning new things and having to apply what I’ve learned to solve problems. Like @Sarah said, it’s really cool knowing that you are adding something new to the world’s knowledge (even if it’s just a tiny thing!). I also get to work with loads of amazing scientists from all over the world who are really passionate about what they do.

    • Photo: Andy Buckley

      Andy Buckley answered on 7 Mar 2019:

      There are lots of good things: selfishly it’s the learning new things all the time, the having ideas and then being able to test them, or the being the first person ever to see some new data. But actually, I really like helping other people by solving their problems. Even better when they say thanks (always say thanks!)

    • Photo: Meirin Oan Evans

      Meirin Oan Evans answered on 7 Mar 2019:

      The best thing working with other scientists brings is international diversity. See this map that shows the nationalities of CERN users https://cds.cern.ch/record/2302064/?ln=no.
      What’s beautiful is that people from various backgrounds, cultures, religions, faiths, nationalities, beliefs… are working together towards a common scientific goal. People who’s countries are at war against each other, can still work together peacefully. I honestly believe that CERN should be a model to the rest of the world of how international collaboration can work.

    • Photo: Emily Lewis

      Emily Lewis answered on 11 Mar 2019:

      There are almost too many to pick from! Like these guys have said, it’s great to be learning new things all the time and meeting many different scientists from all over the world.

      I also like working together with scientists from other subjects, at the moment I’m working on making some software for scientists who work on a particle accelerator- I only know a little about high energy particle physics and having a chat about it with a world expert is an amazing way to learn!

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