I have been attending lots of seminars, discussing things with my fellow classmates, reading scientific literature and sometimes doing experiments in the lab. And meanwhile I often ask some questions to myself: Could I become a good chemist one day? Will I be having the knowledge to answer any question whatsoever regarding my research field ever in my life? Could I ever be feeling satisfying as a scientist at all?
Everyday it is an amazing (and stimulating) experience to see the postdocs working in the lab with the aim of learning one or more things everyday. So, does that mean that you can never be satisfied with what you already know? I don’t have an answer to this question but I read a quote somewhere that, “Learning is a continuous process”. It’s so true……
Often I get fascinated by some of the experiments in the literature. I wish that sometime I could come up with such thoughtful experiments in my scientific career. Wouldn’t it be cool? Well, PhD gives me an opportunity to do such things.…..yippy :)
I think being a graduate student, my first and foremost task is to learn all the experimental techniques sincerely and listen to the senior members in the lab. I have almost spent five months in the lab now but still I think that I need to improve on my experimental methods a lot. Once I would become confident with the techniques, it would make much more sense to actually come up with the ‘cool’ experiments……
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