The Scientist with No Lab Coat

I started actively volunteering when I was 17. At that time, I thought that to make a difference, one had to make a big splash. That you had to be visible.
Over the years though, I have come to appreciate that that's not always true. You can make as much difference in the world by quietly working in the background....

I think one of the lessons I learned going to university was that you don't have to like everybody you meet, and they don't have to like you.
The harder lesson, though, was that even if you don't like the person (and they don't like you), it's actually possible to work with them AND treat them with respect and fairness....

Whenever people ask me what I do, I always tell them I assist the professor in her research. Which is true, in many ways.
But I gotta say that I didn't quite appreciate that I would be using a lot more than just research skills when I took on this job (yep, naive!)....

I was reading this piece about choosing supervisors on U of T's website and had a good laugh.
I guess I'm lucky. Through the years, I've had supervisors who did everything listed on the "best" to "worst" scenarios. I think the supervisors described was an amalgamation of all my supervisors' good and bad traits....