Yay I'm there!...now what to do?
For someone that always felt apart from the scientific community, the first months on a University bring a full hand of opportunities. But there's two things that keep torturing a mind of a biology student:
1 - Everytime we research something, we must publish it.
Who right, just publish it? No problemo!...Wait, what shall I research?
When we look at all the scientific magazines in existence we are immediately scared. In ecology, our teacher gave us a link of a website that shows A lot of scientific (and more) magazines, the articles available on-line or brought by our university, their website, their price, their thematics and so on. Some of them are really interesting, but just to think we have to spend our live reading or doing such specific things as "Ectoparasites of the endangered Iberian lynx Lynx pardinus and sympatric wild and domestic carnivores in Spain" can scare us at the first sight.
Thing is, we have no idea of what to do when we arrive to this course. Ok, I may like carnivore mammals and birds, but what to study on them? I love the Iberian Lynx but I'm not going to do a work about its conservation, I must do a work about how to conserve it in a specific way.
I guess this things will come by naturally, me and a friend already thought in many things, some by ourselves other where suggested by elder students. Biology is a vast discipline, we can like something but we'll always ask ourselves "What to do?".
2 - Final work
When you finish your Master's degree, we must to a final work on something, being Conservation Biology the one I'm interest about. Then again, what we do there may determine what are we going to work on the future but what shall we do? It's scary when we see someone working for it, mainly because we think "How the hell did he come up with that?", I guess it's natural or something, we have almost 5 years to think about it.
This thought came because recently, a guy who loves birds and knows EVERYTHING about them finished his work and had a positive approval, and so he finished the course. That generated a discussion with another friend of mine about what to do when our time to show our work comes, there's so many factors to study, so many stuff.
Well, I guess the answer for all of this is to ask for guidance, we have so many teachers and elder students that can help us on our way. I try to look for some guidance on ornithology with a elder student and a friend, I absorb every single advice that I receive from all people here but only time will tell what I'm going to do.
I bet today that elder student is going to tell me how much cranes he has seen this saturday. I'm jealous. :c
1 - Everytime we research something, we must publish it.
Who right, just publish it? No problemo!...Wait, what shall I research?
When we look at all the scientific magazines in existence we are immediately scared. In ecology, our teacher gave us a link of a website that shows A lot of scientific (and more) magazines, the articles available on-line or brought by our university, their website, their price, their thematics and so on. Some of them are really interesting, but just to think we have to spend our live reading or doing such specific things as "Ectoparasites of the endangered Iberian lynx Lynx pardinus and sympatric wild and domestic carnivores in Spain" can scare us at the first sight.
Thing is, we have no idea of what to do when we arrive to this course. Ok, I may like carnivore mammals and birds, but what to study on them? I love the Iberian Lynx but I'm not going to do a work about its conservation, I must do a work about how to conserve it in a specific way.
I guess this things will come by naturally, me and a friend already thought in many things, some by ourselves other where suggested by elder students. Biology is a vast discipline, we can like something but we'll always ask ourselves "What to do?".
2 - Final work
When you finish your Master's degree, we must to a final work on something, being Conservation Biology the one I'm interest about. Then again, what we do there may determine what are we going to work on the future but what shall we do? It's scary when we see someone working for it, mainly because we think "How the hell did he come up with that?", I guess it's natural or something, we have almost 5 years to think about it.
This thought came because recently, a guy who loves birds and knows EVERYTHING about them finished his work and had a positive approval, and so he finished the course. That generated a discussion with another friend of mine about what to do when our time to show our work comes, there's so many factors to study, so many stuff.
Well, I guess the answer for all of this is to ask for guidance, we have so many teachers and elder students that can help us on our way. I try to look for some guidance on ornithology with a elder student and a friend, I absorb every single advice that I receive from all people here but only time will tell what I'm going to do.
I bet today that elder student is going to tell me how much cranes he has seen this saturday. I'm jealous. :c