Summer "Visit" - 2020 - Spider Team

Quotes

• [student:] I thought that astronomy was organized and well-ordered, but I have come to realize that it is all over the place which isn't at all a bad thing. It's a process of many open windows, many double checks, and many minor mistakes but it always seems to work out for the best.
• I was most surprised at how well the students picked up the material. I can only speak with great deal about my own students, but overall the amount of silence that was present leading up to the conference convinced me that we’d have to spend conference time reinforcing the underlying science. Great job for [the] educators in getting our students ready to go.
• [student:] Astronomers have to be incredibly patient. They can’t be deterred by failure because failing and having to start again is inevitable.
• Astronomers don’t look at the stars. They look at their computers. Not that that’s a bad thing.
• [student:] I discovered that there was more math involved in the work than I assumed there to be.

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• Spider/Rebull