
{"id":2604,"date":"2019-05-16T12:59:17","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T12:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/honours-trying-to-do-science-with-real-world-implications\/"},"modified":"2025-01-15T06:35:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T06:35:16","slug":"honours-trying-to-do-science-with-real-world-implications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/honours-trying-to-do-science-with-real-world-implications","title":{"rendered":"Honours: Trying to do science with real world implications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">I\u2019m an Honours student who finished her first \u2018official\u2019 research year, and a proud owner of a freshly-minted thesis. In this blog post, I will be reflecting upon the year that was Honours.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">My first taste of research began in the summer of 2016, where I was a vacation research student for 6 weeks. I was mentored by \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/brownlabbanter.wordpress.com\/2018\/09\/26\/the-mentorship-experience-undergrads-teaching-a-grad-student\/\" style=\"color:blue; text-decoration:underline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Grey Wolf<\/a>\u2019 and found the short experience to be rewarding and was keen to return to the same lab for Honours.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">I started Honours bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, eager to begin some \u2018real science\u2019 with real-world implications. I also, however, was filled with small amounts of doubt and trepidation. How do I, as an undergraduate student with only three years of learning, do the \u2018real science\u2019 with real world implications? Suffice to say, the 7 months of Honours gave me the answer.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">Looking back, the first two months were a bit of a blur of reading for a non-assessed literature review and becoming proficient in techniques. It was also a time where many experiments failed, and I struggled to see how I could get any useful results for my thesis. On the plus side, some experiments were successful, and were not included in the final thesis but will be in a paper that will be published.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">Two and a half months into Honours, I received a result worth including in my final thesis. And, was that moment glorious! Until I repeated the experiment with different results, requiring further optimization and repetition\u2026 I soon came to learn that more often than not, science does not go to plan. I have learnt to appreciate the small victories in lab work, such as getting an R<sup>2\u00a0<\/sup>of 0.999 for a standard curve, a pink stain from a Ponceau, indicating successful transfer of proteins or getting bacterial colonies for cloning.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">And so, I persevered. I kept calm (most of the time) and carried on (as I must). Fewer and fewer mishaps occurred and I learnt from my mistakes and developed efficient strategies to save time and energy. Over time, the useful results stacked up. Excitingly, the results were new and no one else had seen them before. This was one of the rewarding aspects of research \u2013 finding the answers to the questions yourself, through all the hard work you put into it.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">After running so many experiments, it was almost a relief to sit down and tackle the assessed components of the Honours program, namely, the seminar and thesis. There was something very satisfying in writing up all your results and presenting them as a coherent story.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">To my surprise, I enjoyed giving the Honours seminar. I say surprised, as I was nervous giving presentations during my first two years of undergrad and the seminar was what I initially thought to be the most nerve-wracking thing to do. However, at that stage during the year, I was eager to showcase my exciting results to like-minded peers.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">Thesis-writing was slow-going. I enjoyed how the scientific narrative came together at the end but did not enjoy the formatting and referencing and editing process. I very quickly realised the many ways to use the Microsoft Office Suite effectively.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">Towards the tail-end of Honours, I attended\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/combio2018.combio.org.au\/\" style=\"color:blue; text-decoration:underline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ComBio<\/a>, a biology conference in Sydney. I found the experience eye-opening and informative. I saw presentations and posters from scientists all over the world, in specialties that I\u2019ve never given much thought to. ComBio helped me to contextualise my small research project with the rest of the scientific community. It was not directly related to my Honours, but the conference was a highlight of my year.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">Another highlight was the feeling that I was part of the team. With frequent attendance to lab meetings, I was constantly kept in the loop of the projects of other lab members. And it wasn\u2019t all just about the science \u2013 journal clubs, lab lunches, and Christmas parties were great fun.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">So how does an undergraduate student do the \u2018real science\u2019 with real world implications? The student dons a lab coat, enters the lab, and starts experimenting. Some lessons can only be learnt by experience.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">To the current and future Honours students, know that Honours is a busy year. But it is also a year when the hard work will pay off and you will discover something new and exciting!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-size:11.0pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Lydia Qian <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size:11.0pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/qian_lydia\" style=\"color:blue; text-decoration:underline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>@qian_lydia<\/i><\/a><i>) is a PhD Candidate at UNSW. This story was published on December 5, 2018, on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/brownlabbanter.wordpress.com\/\" style=\"color:blue; text-decoration:underline\"><i>Confessions of the Brown Lab Researchers<\/i><\/a><i> (available <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/brownlabbanter.wordpress.com\/2018\/12\/05\/so-what-is-honours-really-like\/\" style=\"color:blue; text-decoration:underline\"><i>here<\/i><\/a><i>), and has been republished here with permission.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m an Honours student who finished her first \u2018official\u2019 research year, and a proud owner of a freshly-minted thesis. In this blog post, I will be reflecting upon the year that was Honours. My first taste of research began in the summer of 2016, where I was a vacation research student for 6 weeks. 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