Passion for Research
In class this week, one of our guest speakers was Dr. McCall, who talked about his work studying sediments and how biological organisms and their feces affect sediments in Lake Erie. What I really like about McCall’s research is how there was a mix of biology and geology, he studied an area where both come into play into the equation. Because his research involved biology I found it interesting and easier to understand.
I would love to mimic this in my own research. If not now, then definitely in the future. I have a passion for Biology yes, but I also find Sociology equally important with what I want to do with my future career. It would be nice to merge the two and find a way to study how group interactions can effect biology.
For the last sages class I took which was a class on studying Human Attention, I found a way to merge the subject of attention with my love for sociology. I wrote my final research paper on how Human attention is affected by an individual’s cultural background and upbringing. In this paper I talked about how individuals from Eastern countries focus attention very differently than those from Western countries. This is due to the fact that cultural morals and values differ based on a society’s standards. I was really happy to be able to put my love for sociology into my research of attention because it made me really invested in the topic and paper allowing me to do a really good paper.
I hope to merge my interest in Biology and Sociology in my future endeavors. I think the more you are interested in a subject the better you will do in working with it. It is really important that when doing research, you never limit yourself to whatever you can find, but that you work to find what interests you the most. I hope for my final project I can do just that. I would love to have a passion for what I am studying.
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