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Campus Life the secret life of researchers

Reading for fun

By Emily A. Moberg Oct. 1, 2013

I have a homemade sign hanging up in my office that proclaims “sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast” accompanied by a picture of a tipped over teacup, the only thing from Lewis Carroll’s books I was confident enough to draw. I like this quote because it reminds me that scientists aren’t supposed to look at things in mundane ways; we need to be brave and see things differently; we need to tackle the impossible.

Campus Life the secret life of researchers

Flying monkeys, hedgehogs, and castles, oh my!

By Emily A. Moberg Jul. 3, 2013

I originally wanted this article to show that graduate students can kick back, relax, and stave off the insanity that is just a stone’s throw away from the genius we all aspire to achieve. However, as I wrote the title, I realized this may actually convince you of the opposite, that graduate school does in fact drive graduate students off the deep end. So, throwing caution to the wind, I am sharing two tales of the silly, the frivolous, and the fun that I’ve experienced this summer.

Campus Life the secret lives of researchers

Don’t be afraid to ask

By Emily A. Moberg May. 7, 2013

The Internet is littered with quotes about how it’s the great questions and not the great answers that are important and shape history, science, and the universe as a whole. It’s not as if I had never thought about it; really, I had. I had just assumed this was talking about my research questions, the big important questions I could spend a lot of time crafting. I assumed those were the questions I was being judged on.

Campus Life the secret lives of researchers

50 minutes of anxiety

By Emily A. Moberg Apr. 30, 2013

Sitting in class, 50 minutes always seemed like a lifetime. I never thought it could feel longer after leaving undergrad.

Campus Life the secret life of researchers

The emotional rollercoaster of literature review

By Emily A. Moberg Mar. 12, 2013

Imagine this: you have a brilliant idea, a question that no one has ever dared asked, a new way to study the cosmos, a ground-breaking theory.

Campus Life the secret life of researchers

Becoming a mentor

By Emily A. Moberg Feb. 19, 2013

“True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.”

Campus Life the secret lives of researchers

A conference cynic’s conversion

By Emily A. Moberg Nov. 27, 2012

While the belief was totally unsubstantiated, I had long believed that conferences were a secret academic conspiracy. Yeah, you really need to go to Hawaii to meet with other scientists and share your work ­— this is something that just couldn’t be done via internet or phone. What a thinly veiled scheme to take a vacation and hang out with academic buddies! On my least cynical days, I thought it was merely a holdover from the pre-internet era when communication and dissemination of ideas would have been more difficult.

Campus Life the secret lives of researchers

Endless forms most irregular

By Emily A. Moberg Nov. 13, 2012

In the viscous, tiny world of plankton, there is endless, beautiful variation.

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