Answer the question you selected for profile question 1 here (300 words):
Being a scientist is amazing. Once the university prepares you with the necessary tools you need to understand nature, you just must motivate yourself, and with a little curiosity you can discover things that no one else has. Saying it is easy, doing it is not. My research experience has taught me that going out to the world and studying something for a period of time can be challenging and somewhat stressing. First, if you are under a mentor and need a topic of study, your topic must be approved by your mentor. For it to be approved you need the topic to be practical and on an affordable budget. Also, it should be made in within a realistic length of time. That is why you need to plan everything, and even if you plan it, sometimes things go wrong and make mistakes. It is natural for experiments to go wrong sometimes, or even have loss of data. If that happens, you must be honest and talk with your mentor about what happened and, with his/her help try to find solutions for that problem. Possible solutions for the problem must be discussed having in mind different ways of solving it. Also, disagreements can occur between you and your mentor, and maybe he/she wants you to embark on a different road of achieving your goals, or even a totally different subject of study. This can be frustrating but you must have patience and the willingness to start over again if necessary. I believe that a research that is done with two or more people constantly giving suggestions on how to make things function better needs constant communication between the peers. By doing this, then the research hopefully can be done and the results that are obtained could be utilized for further studies or discussions. Being a scientist is hard work, but it is worth it. If you are persistent, motivated, creative, thoughtful and communicative with your peers then you can grow as a scientist and share your knowledge with other people.