Seminar Reflection

I believe that both the Career Development 101 and Writing Scholarly Articles and Getting Published seminars were helpful to me in some way or another. Networking has always been emphasized by UROP and it was nice to see it talked about much more in depth. One thing I had not considered before the seminar, however, was a thirty second speech about yourself and your goals. I think that was an important point to make for, though I've had interviews and experienced networking in some way or another,  I had never thought to condense my story into a quick easy to follow introduction to use as a part of networking. 

The Writing Scholarly Articles and Getting Published seminar really helped me understand how scholarly articles work in the first place. I found especially helpful to have articles explained in the most simplistic form. It solidified how I thought researchers present their findings but put it into an easy to understand form. Thinking about articles as a "conversation" is what has helped me the most, because that's honestly the easiest way to understand what is going on and why articles have so many citations. It takes a lot of the fear away to think about an article as a piece of conversation.