Graduate school implies that I am working on my dissertation. Until this week I hadn't really given it serious thought. I always believed I wouldn't have control over the research I was doing (Fig. 1). This comic was released during my senior year of undergrad, maybe this was it that gave me the idea.
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| Fig. 1 #truth |
Now I have started a working list of research questions I want to answer. With MMS, I am working the presence of lower energy ions that once were located in the Earth's upper atmosphere, but by one mechanism or another made their was to the magnetopause. My interests have been varied since I started my research career, but something that has been consistently dangled in front of my nose, but I have not taken part in, Space Weather research.
PTM: I have my chance, with my research questions.
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| Fig. 2 Less Dramatic |
PTM: I will be able to answer these questions.
GT: Work was on the productive side last week.
1) Caught up on September's Housekeeping.
2) Actually had a meeting with my Advisor [two actually!!].
3) Made a plan for what to work on, moving forward.
GT: I have been working through a Couch to 5k app, I just finished week three, and I am about to start week four (Fig. 2).
PTM: 5 weeks from now I will be able to run a 5k without stopping.
This point of all research is so exciting. The literature search; where each paper brings you closer and closer to the answer. Now the question... the question is one of two. One - "Who has the answer?" The literature search may prove that my research questions have already been answered. OR Two- "Will I have to answer the question?" It may be my turn to learn something new and write a paper on it.
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| Fig. 3 Research Thoughts |
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