Summer "Visit" - 2020 - Spider Team

Quotes

• Luisa is a master of searching for the image needed to clarify a concept while simultaneously providing the introductory context in which it needs to be understood. Your guidance always feels so authentic. You recognize our limitations, and openly talk about them in a way that makes it clear that you view them as a movable barrier that can be pushed to new places if we just keep putting in the work and ask our questions as they form.
• [student:] Astronomers have to be incredibly patient. They can’t be deterred by failure because failing and having to start again is inevitable.
• Getting to work with this group of passionate, curious, and bold individuals as we all experienced the processing of learning how to be a researcher was the best part of the NITARP summer learning experience. Integrating all the separate pieces of knowledge and skills that we developed over the last five months into a tool for forming a new understanding of what is in IC417 felt amazing.
• [student:] Real astronomy is mostly looking at data and numbers. I didn’t realize we would be using so much math these last few months, so it’s important to remember how closely math and science correlate.
• [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.

Related Teams

• Spider/Rebull