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Naturally Obsessed: Making of the scientists

The naturally obsessed movie is focused on the life of graduate students. This video is the representation of conversion of normal people like us to the scientist.  Rob Townly is the main character of this movie who works   at the Lab of Lawrence Shapiro. Their current research is focused on the study of AMPK protein that is supposed to cause burning of fats and  obesity. So they are  are focused on protein crystallography The picture on top is  about protein purification and second on about  x-ray crystallography.

This movie depicts the life and work of graduate students. Though there several characters in this movie it shows about  the life of Rob Townley’s  and his mentor Shapiro's  success. The movie presents these two characters  as highly motivated person and determined towards research. Rob  dropped  during  under graduate , however his motivation and hard work  led him to the success..The movie ended on happy note though it showed frustration, failure and ups and downs during start.

This movie depicts the life and work of graduate students, their diligent nature. This video is  basically focused with Rob Townley’s life and his success. The movie presents him as highly motivated and detrimental  present. Earlier during his high school he dropped out thrice, however his motivation led him to the success who got  PhD at the end of movie.  The movie ended on happy note though it showed frustration, failure and ups and downs.

The movie shows that failure is the key to success. All the characters in the movie have failures in their work but they should be determined like Rob who showed his interest towards science, accomplished his work and got PhD. The failure is common for people working in the field of research. They should be able to take that as rule of nature to success. However, in the process of getting success people are naturally obsessed. They are always devoted to their work. They always think and apply as many alternatives as possible. Some are so much devoted that they forget to come out to natural world which I think is absolutely wrong. We should allocate our time to get to know the  environment outside of lab. The example of Robet can be taken as the life outside the lab work  for younger scientists  who made board and feel being climbed on the mountain . This activity is important in life because scientists are also normal people like us. They  have hobbies and interest like normal people.

The movie also demonstrates the importance of mentor.  It's utmost  necessary  that mentor should be helpful and honest . This makes sense to me because without mentor and his suggestion I won’t have achieved the J-term goal of our project, " getting best optimized transition state of Diels- Alder’s reaction". Similarly, this movie  takes about  failure which  applies to my research project as well. I ran 90-100 trials but only out  of 100   was successful in getting best optimized T.S. My own experience on  J-term is exactly similar to what movie is primarily concerned about failure. This  movie also talks about the death of Shapiro’s father. However, he was not disappointed he accepts that as normal incident. So, once we decide research as career and involve in PhD plan we need to be bold. It’s normal that some bad incidents might happen but we should be able to be stronger from any bad incident that might happen  in your life.  The film has motivated and inspired me. It energized me to pursue my career rather than discouraged by this movie.  I am confident that failure is normal  to scientists  to reach the door  of success.

References:

http://www.jic.ac.uk/staff/david-lawson/xtallog/summary.htm

http://proteincrystallography.org/

http://videosift.com/video/Naturally-Obsessed-The-Making-of-a-Scientist