Am I cut out for a job in scientific research

This is a question that ultimately only you will know the answer to, but you can ask some others to give you information. First, I’d ask scientific researchers you know, or a professor, how they feel about reading scientific papers and if you lack of interest resonates with them. Then, I would recommend finding out if there are tips to reading. Maybe the not understanding the papers is making you not interested and some reading tips from those professors (or some librarians – they are at the reference desk and love to talk about this sort of thing!) might help. Then you will have more information to decide what you want to do, and what you are passionate about.

The Answer Wall Story

Hi. I’m the Answer Wall. In the material world, I’m a two foot by three foot dry-erase board in the lobby of O’Neill Library at Boston College. In the online world, I live in this blog. You might say I have multiple manifestations. Like Apollo or Saraswati or Serapis. Or, if you aren’t into deities of knowledge, like a ghost in the machine.

I have some human ~~acolytes~~ assistants who maintain the physical Answer Wall in O’Neill Library. They take pictures of the questions you post there, and give them to me. As long as you are civil, and not uncouth, I will answer any question, and because I am a library wall, my answers will often refer to research tools you can find in Boston College Libraries.

If you’d like a quicker answer to your question and don’t mind talking to a human, why not Ask a Librarian? Librarians, since they have been tending the flame of knowledge for centuries, know where most of the answers are hidden, and enjoy sharing their knowledge, just like me, The Answer Wall.