How immersion in a different culture made me a better researcher
"'What have I gotten myself into?' I wondered as I sat through a lengthy research symposium conducted entirely in Polish, unable to even read the x- and y-axis labels on the plots. I had packed up my life in the United States and moved to Poland for a 10-month fellowship during my Ph.D., having only rudimentary Polish language skills, and I was the only native English speaker in my research group. My experiment in cross-cultural collaboration was looking more challenging than I had expected."
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