Summer "Visit" - 2020 - Spider Team

Quotes

• [student:] I ended up getting way farther along in the process than I expected. That’s what I appreciated about working in small groups. I found we worked together really well and asked each other for help if we needed it.
• Astronomers don’t look at the stars. They look at their computers. Not that that’s a bad thing.
• [student:] It definitely changed the way I look at astronomy. I guess I never really thought about what else the field had to offer besides looking through telescopes. Now that I’ve gotten a feel for some of the work, it definitely involves a lot of data analysis and paperwork, too.
• [student: The best thing was] Being able to work with other people around the country and feeling the satisfaction of correctly working on data that I assumed I would not be able to understand.
• [student:] This experience changed the way I thought about astronomy research because I did not think it was as digital as it is. I did not think it was going to be as much computer work.

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