• Question: what do you like to do when you have finished a project you have been on for a while???

    Asked by niallw99 to Samuel, Richard, Nikolai, Nicki, Cristiane on 16 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Nikolai Adamski

      Nikolai Adamski answered on 16 Mar 2015:

      To be honest, I haven’t finished any of my projects yet. They take time and the underlying biology is often not what we had imagined in the first place: That simply happens when you explore new areas.
      Also, a good experiment will answer (some of) your questions, but at the same time leave you with more questions than you had originally asked. That creates a cycle of asking questions and coming up with an hypothesis, testing your ideas with an experiment and so on.
      But I go out and celebrate when an important experiment worked or when we in the lab achieved a milestone.

    • Photo: Richard Simons

      Richard Simons answered on 16 Mar 2015:

      Celebration is definitely the most important thing 🙂 It’s really important to know when to relax, and it’s often really good to take some time off and recharge your batteries.

      I guess it will also depend on how you finish the project, for example, when most people finish their PhD they’ll often move on to a different area of research or industry, but if you’re running a research group or finish an intermediate project in your PhD you’ll often have a plan for ‘what’s next’.

      Personally I don’t know what’s next, and I find that kind of exciting

    • Photo: Samuel Ellis

      Samuel Ellis answered on 16 Mar 2015:

      The only proper project I completed was for my Master’s degree. I had to write up all of my work into a dissertation first, which was probably even harder than the actual lab work! But after that I had a nice break, and it coincided with the start of summer so I think I went on a holiday with friends soon after also 🙂

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