'I reminded myself that rejection would not be the end of the road.' After cat_colli was turned down from her dream research position, she found an exciting new direction. Read her story in this week's ScienceWorkingLife:
Sitting in the bar for my friend’s 21st birthday, I feel a buzz in my pocket. Glancing at the email’s sender, my heart races. It starts off as you would expect: “Thank you for your interest” and “the deliberation process took longer than expected as we received many highly qualified applicants.” It ends with “We are sorry to inform you” and my vision blurs.
Then came that rejection email. I replied graciously, but I felt myself spiraling. Once again, I felt lost and hopeless. It seemed clear I’d never get to work in a lab or become a scientist. I found myself collaborating with a robotics professor on techniques for collecting data from the desert remotely, and the work introduced me to a whole new way to think about geoscience. That project, which I could complete from my couch instead of in the searing heat of the desert, not only survived the pandemic lockdown but was innovative and fresh and worked where traditional methods didn’t. In the end, I had a thesis and a new scientific interest to pursue.
I found three programs that promised to allow me to follow my desired research direction and threw myself into the applications with the same anxious excitement as before. When I was rejected from one that had seemed like a perfect fit, it was undoubtedly difficult. But this time I had the perspective to keep it from sending me into a tailspin. It helped that in the end I was accepted into one of the other programs I was also excited about.
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