Christian Fogerty
Research Fellow
Just so you know, I’m going to be transcribing this interview.
“Whoa. I’m not okay with that.” Christian and I both speak sarcastically.
After conducting more than thirty interviews for Humans of Tyson this summer, Christian is well versed in the world of Temi transcription service. But how did a geophysics major end up loving science communication?
“I didn't declare the writing minor until right before the last semester of my senior year. Up until then I was an astrophysics minor and only had a couple more classes to complete. One day I was like, you know, I'm not going to go to graduate school for this? Why am I doing this? Then I thought, ‘Maybe I'll do a math minor ‘cause I only have one more class to do it.’ But then I realized, ‘No. I have always loved reading popular science stuff and I've spent more time reading Scientific American and National Geographic than actual scientific papers. Why don't I just change my minor to writing?’”
“I took writing classes pretty much every semester and I just loved workshops and reading other people's writing and finding those hidden gems of people that are really being vulnerable and exposing themselves in a writing class.”
“I feel like science writing also is a great way for me to sort through facts and find things out about the world that initially I would have an intuition about that is totally wrong, then I would have to find some other metaphor or really dive deep into it to understand. I also like creative writing, song writing, and writing poetry.”