Grace Therrell writes: “Seven years ago, I was nearing the end of my masters program and I had just published my first peer-reviewed journal article born from a school assignment. I was new to research and feeling a lot of insecurity about being a researcher. Now here I am seven years later—recently tenured, working on a PhD, and regularly calling myself a researcher. A lot has changed since that first foray into research, though some has stayed the same. Here’s what I’m learning lately about research and about myself as a researcher.”