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- Came to Appreciate Teamwork
- Learned Perseverance
- Solidified Career Decision to
Become Environmental Engineer
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I think the most important thing that I learned during summer research
was about working in groups. I have always found working in groups
difficult for things like class presentations and papers, because
I always thought that I could do a better job on my own. During the
summer research I still found that working in groups was a difficult
task, but I also found that without the help of the group the problem
would have been a lot harder to solve. I believe that without all
of us working together the research project would have taken a lot
longer and the final outcome wouldn't have been as good, because the
group as a whole solved the problems and decided in which directions
the project needed to go.
During our research, I learned that no matter how difficult the
problem seems, effort and hard work will lead to the right path
and in some cases a solution to the problem.
I also discovered some of the difficulties of finding unbiased
information about a politically-charged topic as much of the information
we desired (studies, experiments, etc.) was not always readily available.
Finally, as a result of the research project, I decided to go
to graduate school in environmental engineering (rather than in
civil or mechanical) because I decided the idea of environmentally
sound design systems really interested me. |
