Talking to the Elephant in the Room—The Importance of Scientific Communication & Why We Should Care
By Cleo Xu '26
Sitting on the chairs in upper left Commons, hand poised above my keyboard, I realized that I had no idea how to write a scientific article.
With a background in writing fiction, I was drawn to journalism because it would be an opportunity to interact with the people whose human emotions, motives, and conditions are central to my imaginative plots. From the beginning, I found interviewing a more appealing process than typing the words. I wanted to meet people with novel thoughts, interesting takes, and equal if not more passion for the same thing I do: science and technology.
Writing for Andover Science & Tech Review was everything I had expected and everything I hadn’t. I was qualified enough to understand a student’s research even if some difficult mathe...
