Summer "Visit" - 2020 - Spider Team

Quotes

• [student:] Important qualities of an astronomer include willingness to be a team player because it is important to collaborate with others as well as present your findings to other people, willpower because it is difficult to get past some humps and bumps in astronomy but it's always important to stay straight ahead, and most importantly, the ability to accept your stupidity, there is always going to be an "I am crap" phase but it's important for that to happen so that you can ask questions and grow from that phase.
• [student:] I discovered that there was more math involved in the work than I assumed there to be.
• [student:] we are working on more in depth and hard things than we were before the work week. We are talking more and meeting more than we were before.
• [student:] The most important quality [of an astronomer] has to be patience. I did astronomy work for four days and I found myself being frustrated quite often. But it takes time to learn from your mistakes and hence patience is an important quality for an astronomer, or any scientist for that matter.
• [student:] Some important qualities to have as an astronomer is patience, ambition, and open-mindedness. Working with tedious data becomes frustrating certain times especially when there are instances you mess things up. With the creative process being so up and down, it’s imperative to be patient during hard times and work through it, even when the results aren’t what you were expecting. Furthermore, with being open-minded, it’s primarily aimed at collaborations and feedback since someone might have different opinions on your research or questions on why you didn’t explore something. With that it’s important to take everything into consideration and keep working.

Related Teams

• Spider/Rebull