My favorite module

Mod 3 is my favorite! I think I really like learning and researching much more than actually doing and writing. I think I am just so used to learning at this point in my life because I've always been in school, and in school, you learn. You're always thinking and trying to figure out how things fit together, so your brain doesn't stop. And I like it!


But when you  get to the point in school where you're actually expected to do things, you can't think until you're done doing. Especially in biological engineering, when you have a question that you don't know the answer to, and no one knows the answer to it, have to wait until you get data from your experiments to be able answer your question. Clearly, this class is just a class that is teaching us how to be able to find the answers to our unanswered questions, but it makes me scared for when I do get to the point that I need to create and run my own experiments to get those answers. Like, what do you mean I have to wait a month for my cells to grow in order to know how this thing is affecting them? There's no available data for my questions anymore, and generating my own data takes time. All of a sudden, I'm spending time searching for puzzle pieces that don't exist instead of putting the puzzle pieces together!

But in this module, we don't have to sit around in lab! We get to do all the research we want and come up with as many ideas as we can! It's like a bunch of puzzles were dumped on top of each other, so on top of putting together a puzzle, you get to figure out which piece goes to which puzzle. It's like the ultimate puzzle doers paradise:)

It was scary but excited being told to just dive into the literature. Having the freedom to explore anything made it so my brain was always working, and I didn't have to slow down much at all. So I guess all in all, I'm very thankful for this class as it's wrapping up. I've learned a lot about myself and what I want to do after college. I don't want to be in a lab, running experiments day in and day out, waiting for the data to be ready to be collected. I want to work with data that already exists, collecting it, and constantly working it over in my mind to figure out how it fits together. I'm not sure which jobs will let me capitalize on that, but I'm thankful to even know this much about myself. So thanks 20.109!
 




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