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Philippe Magown |
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Philippe Magown |
The third year, I finally performed my own experiment.
I was thrilled to be doing experiments. Knowing that no other student
my age was doing what I was doing was amazing. I always thought that
an experiment was a direct reflection of a person's abilities because,
throughout the experiment, that person encounters a variety of problems
and has to find original ways and use logic to solve them. When I
worked on an experiment, it practically came alive. I thought of it
almost as a person with whom I had to interact in order to get what
I wanted. I learned a lot more doing experiments than working on instructional
activities. For experiments, not only did I have to gather my information,
but I had to apply the theory and adapt it throughout the project.
When you're experimenting, there are so many interesting problems
to tackle. With the instructional activities, I found my projects
to be more impersonal, even though I had worked just as hard.
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