• Question: Hi! What was your most interesting experience?

    Asked by anon-291050 on 24 Mar 2021.
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      Felicity Hunter answered on 24 Mar 2021:

      Hi Grace! Great question! As part of my University degree, I did a placement year which meant that I got to move to San Fransisco in California to lab research at a Pharmaceutical company for a whole year! It was an amazing experience to learn about how industry science works and to live in California for a year! I met lots of amazing people from all over the world and learnt lots of cool lab techniques. This experience helped me to get accepted onto the PhD programme I’m currently doing at the University of Manchester! 🙂

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      Tim Burrow answered on 24 Mar 2021:

      My most interesting experience was when myself and the others of the research group I am a part of completed an experiment on a very rare and unstable compound! We had to do the experiment in extreme conditions, namely -80 degrees celsius! But once we started seeing results come through that were representative of that compound, it was really fascinating, cool, and really interesting!

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      Callum Thomas answered on 24 Mar 2021:

      Hi Grace, for me it was actually when I was studying my Masters in Germany. I was doing a field course on entomology and we were very lucky that we got to visit a US Army base in northern Bavaria. We got to go around different areas of the base, including woodland, fields, streams and forests and do insect surveys. It was really interesting as the army base has been there for a long time and because very few people are allowed to enter, the natural environment had not been disturbed in some parts for many years. I felt really lucky as it is obviously something hardly anybody gets to see!

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      Megan Metcalfe answered on 25 Mar 2021:

      Hi Grace, interesting question. I think my most interesting experience was working on a volcano in Mexico for a year as part of my university degree. I was using geophysics to see whether the noises volcanoes make could be used to predict eruptions,

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      Lizzie Pendlington answered on 26 Mar 2021:

      Hi Grace 🙂 I’m quite early on in my career so I’m not sure I’ve had my most interesting experience so far. But visiting the site where I work is always super interesting because there are tiny particles being accelerated at a crazy speed (equivalent of going to the Moon in 1.5 seconds!) underneath your feet for experiments 😵

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      Karen Burstow answered on 26 Mar 2021:

      Mine was a work trip to the Mondelez site in Bournville, getting to go around their pilot plant and learn how chocolate products are made! It was really interesting and the smells were amazing!!

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