• Question: What is your least favourite thing about science?

    Asked by rachkid to Micki, Leona, Claire, Aisling, Anil on 9 Nov 2015. This question was also asked by 534nand46, Sanoober.
    • Photo: Leona Mc Girr

      Leona Mc Girr answered on 9 Nov 2015:

      Probably that not everything works the first time. You may have to repeat the same experiment loads of times!

    • Photo: Micki Mitchell

      Micki Mitchell answered on 9 Nov 2015:

      When things don’t work, you wonder why you didn’t pick arts.. Or business.. Anything else, really.

    • Photo: Anil Jain

      Anil Jain answered on 9 Nov 2015:

      That things never work the first time. you have so many parameters to satisfy and so many boxes to tick. Essentially that it takes so much time to verify your idea.

    • Photo: Aisling Kerr

      Aisling Kerr answered on 10 Nov 2015:

      My least favourite thing about science is also sort of my favourite thing – the rigorousness of it. I love that it means everything must be test again and again to be sure that everything is correct. But when you are the one doing the same experiment *again*, verifying your results *again*, your equipment not cooperating *again*, it can get a bit frustrating. But it is all for good reason which helps me get on with it!

    • Photo: Claire O'Connell

      Claire O'Connell answered on 10 Nov 2015:

      For me it’s the fact that things always take longer than you think they will. Projects for the most part take longer to complete and so time management has to be pretty strict if you want to get everything done that you planned to do!

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