Conference Session

Student Paper Presentation

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adam Melvin, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Students Constituent Committee

furiousabout this decision and spent a fair bit of time stomping around the lab and complaining toanyone who would listen. What I know now is this is sometimes how research goes. The failureof my project wasn't a personal reflection on my character or my intelligence. Whether inindustry or academia, sometimes projects just fail and time and work invested go unrewarded.Ultimately, I just had to get over it and move forward. Getting angry about it will only taint yourview of research, your advisor, and your graduate school experience as well as negatively affectyour health. Once I accepted this fact, I was able to move forward on a new project with arenewed vigor and was ultimately able to produce some good, publishable data.There will be good days, and