• Question: what are your top 5 goals

    Asked by to Aimee, Chris, Dave, Greig, Laurence on 14 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Laurence Perreault Levasseur answered on 14 Jun 2014:

      (0.5 – get a PhD)
      1 – Become a researcher in academia (0.5 is really the first step towards this goal) and have a job in the same city as my husband (it’s actually very difficult).
      2 – Stop to be completely panicked and freaked out when I have to give a talk about my work.
      3 – Understand out-of-equilibrium quantum field theory (at least better than I do now – I don’t think I will ever completely understand it, but it’s really fascinating, so I want to learn more about it!).
      4 – Be the first to discover/think about something cool and interesting (doesn’t have to be important or big, just a little thing that I can be proud of and think: yes, I did that! 🙂 ).
      5 – BIKE from Paris to Beijing!!!!

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      Aimee Hopper answered on 15 Jun 2014:

      In no particular order

      1) Contribute to my research field
      2) Become completely self-sufficient (i.e. build my own house off grid, and grown my own food)
      3) Pass on what I know to the next generation, and enthuse them to do the same
      4) Be a good person, treat everyone as equals and help remove discrimination from society
      5) Live life to the full and have fun! Because you only live once and I want to make the most of it!

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      Greig Cowan answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      Top 5 goals? Are you referring to the World Cup? 🙂

      More seriously, I think peoples goals change over time but at the moment these are mine:

      1. Get a permanent scientific job (currently I’m on a contract).
      2. Make leading contributions to the field of particle physics.
      3. Become a more effective science communicator.
      4. Try not to get too stressed out when I don’t understand something!
      5. Have fun doing all of the above!

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      Dave Jones answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      1 – Get a permanent job! I’m also on a short contract just like almost everyone else here.
      2 – For that permanent job to be in the same place as my fiancee
      3 – I’d like for that job to be as an astronaut, but I don’t think that’s realistic for me now so I’ll make my real number 3 be “for that job to be as a scientist”. Lots of people don’t find a job in science (or not one in the place where their family is) so they have to leave and do something else.
      4 – I’d like to really understand what happens when stars run out of fuel – exactly what I’ve been working on for the last 7 years but which we still don’t understand completely.
      5 – Tell everybody else about it so that everyone else understands too!

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