I often times find myself with some sort of word or sentence that gets stuck in my head, like one of those annoying pop songs on the radio. When this happens, I find myself most inspired to craft a poem around the word or sentence. I have been like this my whole life; written language has always been my greatest form of expression. It’s an art that is often forgotten when discussing creativity, but I can assure you that written language is in a category of its own.<\/p>\n
“Rebecca, why is this relevant to a science internship?”<\/p>\n
Well, it’s really not, and that’s kind of the point!<\/p>\n
As you all know by now, I was going to be an English teacher when I graduated high school. So when my plans changed and I found my passion for geology, I had very little faith in myself to actually accomplish the goals I had in mind. I was plagued by thoughts of never being that great of a science student in high school. I mean, I received A’s in most of my science classes, but I never truly grasped it like I did with English. So there I was, a community college student sitting in a geology classroom wondering how on earth I’d ever be able to make it through a science degree.<\/p>\n
Yet, here I am.<\/p>\n
Beginning this internship, many of those feelings of being in the wrong area of academia persisted. I found myself launched into geophysics, having never previously taken a physics course before. I found myself crying the night before I started my work, telling myself I was not good enough for this and I had no right to be in this position.<\/p>\n
Yet… here I am, running earthquake data through a detector, looking at each “wiggle” individually, and taking pride in every event I see. Each one is special, and they’ve even developed their own personalities to me. I get so excited when looking through my data, and I truly love my research and the work I’m doing. The coolest part is, it’s become my work, and I’m the one doing it! Isn’t that awesome?!<\/p>\n
Reading your blogs, I know I am not the only one who has doubted myself. But let me share this with each of you: everyone is doing a great job. Whenever you all talk about your projects, I see the passion you have for it, and it’s incredible! Even though there was doubt in the beginning, we’ve all come a long way, and I’m proud of all of us!<\/p>\n
Next step… finish the research, and rock those presentations! We got this, guys!<\/p>\n
-Becca<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I often times find myself with some sort of word or sentence that gets stuck in my head, like one of those annoying pop songs on the radio. When this happens, I find myself most inspired to craft a poem around the word or sentence. I have been like this my whole life; written language… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reccs-2017"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-20 16:32:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/reccs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/reccs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/reccs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/reccs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/reccs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/reccs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":906,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/reccs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions\/906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/reccs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/reccs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/reccs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}