Today we had our last Craft of Research meeting, and we learned about how to create the Methods, Results, and Discussion sections in a research paper. We also learned a little bit about what Yvonne is studying, which has to do with how people respond to AI depending on the AI’s perceived warmth and competence. It was very intriguing to see how different physical and non-physical characteristics of the robot examples she showed us changed people’s perceptions of the robots.

We also had our lunch lecture with Elliot today. We learned about how he ended up working at VRAC, and how his path was in no way linear and continues to be varied; he doesn’t just work on the exact same thing 9-5 every day. It was nice to see that your major doesn’t have to define exactly what you do when you leave college and that it’s okay to change what you’re studying or learn about things unrelated to your major. It also opened my eyes to the importance of doing research on multiple different career trajectories. I had only ever really thought about following BioMed or whatever major I chose and do some career directly in that field, but now I feel like it’s possible to hypothetically plan for multiple outcomes that don’t only involve BioMed jobs, or that align more with what I want from a career.

Overall, today was a very enlightening day so far, I’m nervous about a presentation our team is giving later, and I’m excited about doing a dance workout with everyone tonight 🙂

Until next time 🙂