I'm in academia. I like how many vibrant and wonderful people I meet. I love asking PhD students to tell me about their research areas, which are often so absurdly niche that I have no idea what it means, but I love being made aware of my own relative smallness. And I love being challenged to think about my own privilege in being here, how the ivory tower of research has been and is still a force of oppression in the world, especially in the context of colonialism. I like being challenged in this way because it prevents me from becoming comfortable in my ideology and challenges me to think of what science would look like in a fair and just world, and indeed, whether it would exist at all. These might seem like odd things for me to count as my favourite aspects but it's because I love science, and I firmly believe that if you have to lie about something in order to love it, that love is no true love.
I think a lot about how to reach other people, to share the love that I feel for my subject, and though I haven't done much teaching yet, I look forward to being able to learn from my students as they learn from me.