How the heck do I read scientific papers as though they were Harry Potter novels? I don’t. I find the process very tedious to understand these papers. It took me a long time to under to understand the different components of figure 4 in the paper. I remember feeling confident about the content of this paper and then coming to class and being asked about ‘why certain expression patterns were monitored instead of others’. I didn’t know. I was glad this was addressed, but I still felt discontent that I didn’t know.

There is so much background knowledge required for a full appreciation of results in these papers. I realize that’s what my degree is for, but I still have a difficult time fully interpreting results when difficult questions are posed. Ultimately I’m happy I know all the supportive work that went into determining the 2 necessary factors for axis formation.

Knowing is great,learning is tough.

This is a bit of a rant, hahaha.