Summer "Visit" - 2020 - Spider Team

Quotes

• [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.
• Astronomers don’t look at the stars. They look at their computers. Not that that’s a bad thing.
• [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 was surprised with how quickly I could understand some things but not others, so I was forced to focus my energy on the concepts that needed refinement.
• [student:] I didn’t realize that most of astronomy is looking at numbers on a screen. It was hard work and intense math and it made me have more respect for the entire field.

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