by Abby Stitgen
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Every time I go back to Wisconsin to visit my family, I get asked the same questions: “So, how is your research going?” “Why do your experiments never seem to work?” “When are you going to graduate?”
“Wait, explain to me what you even do again?”
Have I explained my research to them hundreds of times at this point? Perhaps. But they’re not chemists; my parents are accountants…
