• Question: What things do you think you can improve upon to make you a better Chemist?

    Asked by anon-227008 to William, Thibaut "Tibo", Harry, Georgia, Emily, Aimee on 10 Nov 2019.
    • Photo: Georgia Orton

      Georgia Orton answered on 10 Nov 2019:

      There is always more to learn!
      I used to find that quite daunting, but now I love that I can always learn cool new stuff or learn to use new machines.

    • Photo: Emily Sparkes

      Emily Sparkes answered on 10 Nov 2019:

      Remembering the basics! I often completely forget about key concepts and foundations of chemistry. Often the answer isn’t as complex as you think it will be!

    • Photo: William Wiseman

      William Wiseman answered on 11 Nov 2019:

      Taking a little bit of extra time to think out ideas before trying them out in the lab. Often we get requests and the best way to see if they work is to try them out. More often, spending a little time thinking about what it is we are trying makes all the difference in the long run.

    • Photo: Aimee Egglestone

      Aimee Egglestone answered on 11 Nov 2019:

      Honestly? My biggest problem with how I work at the moment is that I get so excited about the chemistry and the experiment planning that I forget to write up what I’ve found until ages after!

      So I’m trying to put together something which makes sense from scraps of paper or notes scrawled across 3 different notebooks which I haven’t looked at for weeks. I really need to work on that!

    • Photo: Thibaut Deviese

      Thibaut Deviese answered on 11 Nov 2019:

      I think for me it is to find a balance between being in the lab doing experiments and being in the office writing articles about my work so it can be shared with other scientists. I get very excited about doing new experiments in the lab…

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