EECS Fellow, Rachel Yang’s, essay, which was published in Science, discusses discovering that writing doesn’t have to be so intimidating if you treat it as trial-and-error – like research:
When I got my first research project to work as an undergraduate, I was so excited I could hardly think. I had worked in an engineering lab to design and build a part that could deliver power more efficiently to phones and other electronic devices. Seeing research in action was exhilarating, inspiring me to consider a future career as an academic. My excitement, though, was soon cut short when my professor asked me to write a research paper on the project. My body tensed. Writing was the last thing I wanted to do; it’s one reason why I pursued science in the first place. I learned only later that the research process I’d fallen in love with had more in common with writing than I thought: Both require trial and error.
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