Writing a report for research you have completed that was funded externally is generally compulsory, so you should know how to write a good report.

Humans have a natural sense of wonder, which is essentially letting yourself ask questions about the world around you.

Being a scientist is one of the most rewarding careers. You will work on solutions to problems with real world application and impact.

A scientist is one of the few professions where failure means progress. No one wants their project or experiments to fail, but a large part of science is failing and learning it.

In everyday life, work, and science projects, people generally don’t like to talk about risk. There is a perception that talking about risk will stop something from happening (e.g. a project).

There will always be more than one audience that will be affected by your project and its outcomes.

‘Collaboration’ is powerful when there is diversity of opinion involved, as opposed to working together on someone else’s idea which would be ‘cooperation’.

Most humans are terrible at estimating time. Usually because every detail is rarely considered, or known, coupled with misperceptions about how long it takes to do various tasks.