• Question: is being a scientist easy?

    Asked by Isabella D to Freddie, Jena, Kirsten, Kon, Zarah on 13 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Jennifer Bates

      Jennifer Bates answered on 13 Nov 2016:


      It’s a challenge – you have to think hard and learn a lot, but it’s always interesting and fun. If it were easy, if I could just do it straight away, I don’t think I’d enjoy it so much. I like having to push myself, investigate something I don’t fully understand yet, learn new skills. Sometimes that can be frustrating, I’ll admit. At the moment I have a seed I can’t identify and it is annoying me a bit, but I know that when I do find out what it is, after I have puzzled over it, explored all the possibilities and tested myself as much as I can to work it out, it is going to be an amazing feeling of success and achievement, and I will have learnt a lot along the way that will come in handy when looking at other species.

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