Reflect on your education from grade school to grad school and describe one memorable learning experience. In the junior year as an undergraduate at James Madison University, I attended a Biology seminar on Multiple Sclerosis. Yes, I consistently remind my research students, advisees, and first year students in particular, that you never know when that defining moment of insight which will define your existence will occur.
Scientists approach a problem by asking questions.
Put them in the laboratory the very first day with a question that you don't know the answer to. Let them know that you don't know all of the answers and that you have to work at finding the answers. Science is done in the laboratory, with dialog between peers. The preparation of students matriculating into the colleges and universities. It provides a wonderful philosophy that is useful to the readers as scientists and human beings.