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There are three main
communication skills

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that students will learn
through the process of doing

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lab work in Junior Lab.

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The main one is doing
oral presentations,

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the type of talks that somebody
would give at a conference.

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A typically 12 to 15 minute
type, professional level

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talk, with some sort of--
usually with electronic slides,

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like a PowerPoint or
something like that.

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The second one is
we write papers.

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They write papers in the
style of the Physical Review

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Letters, which is more or less
the most important journal

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in physics.

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It's a very constrained format.

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It's a maximum of four
pages, two columns.

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It's written for a generalist
physicist audience.

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So it's somebody who's
your professional peer,

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but may not be working in
your direct research field.

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So writing a Physical
Review letter is a--

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it's a challenge both as a
writer and as a researcher.

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So the students get
a lot of practice

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in that over the course of 8.13.

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The third mode of
communication which students

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will get a lot of practice
with in the course of doing

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lab work in 8.13 is just
communicating with a peer.

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Working as part of
a team, learning

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to listen to what
your partner is saying

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and understand what
they mean by that.

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Learning to be patient
with people, learning

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to explain yourself in
live time with somebody

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that you're trying to cooperate
with to achieve some goal.

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Having to make decisions.

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Having to negotiate
decisions, when

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you think the most important
measurement to make is this

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and your partner thinks the
important measurement to make

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is that.

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Working through those sort
of interpersonal types

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of communication.

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They get lots of
practice for that,

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whether they like it or not.