Q&A Session with Sharon Yavrom

Q: What exactly do you do in the lab in your current job?

A: I am currently working with a team including 7 Investigators from 
   different Universities around the country and Canada.  We are studying 
   the effects of space flight on pregnant rats and their pups and 
   fetuses.  We are looking at the moms, pups and fetuses behavior, 
   morphology as well as their physiology.


Q: I get so bored in some of my classes sometimes.  Do you have suggestions
   to make thins interesting when they're not?

A: I'll be honest, not all classes are interesting.  I have this little motto
   that I like to live my life by:  Life is only as fun as you make it for
   yourself.  You can turn any bad/boring situation into something more
   interesting for yourself.  If you follow this, I assure you, that you 
   will see that the class won't be so boring.  I am currently taking a 
   class that is not so interesting, Radiation Biophsysics at a local 
   University.  I just try to stay on top of the lectures and I find that 
   trying to follow along and actively take notes can help.


Q: Do you see yourself in the future as being able to travel into space?

A: I sure hope so!  I've always wanted to be an astronaut.  I see our world
   moving in a direction where more and more people will be working/living in
   space.  Luckily for us, women are being incorporated more and more 
   into the space program, being an astronaut is more possible than you 
   ever thought.


Q: Did you ever become discouraged and want to give up because you had to
   repeat some classes?

A: Sure I got discouraged!  Although, I always tried to pick myself up and 
   have at it one more time.  When you want something bad enough, you 
   know what you have to do.  Just because I was weak in one subject, 
   namely Chemistry, I still knew I wanted to be in the sciences.  Any 
   hardships and dispair I underwent to get me where I am today was well 
   worth it!  Never, ever let a class or teacher discourage you from 
   doing what you want to.  Let them only be a reminder that you have to 
   work a little harder.  You live this life for you only.   Don't let 
   anyone influence you.