• Question: Hi! I want to ask you, when did you know exactly what were you going to study or what was the reason you have chosen science? Was it something that you admired since ever or it was more likely to a spontaneous idea? And yeah also, have nice day!

    Asked by anon-280405 to Katie on 8 Feb 2021.
    • Photo: Katie West

      Katie West answered on 8 Feb 2021:

      Hi!

      I’ve never had a burning desire to be a scientist when I was younger. But, science was always one of my best subjects at school. My favorite of these was Biology I was really lucky to have some great teachers, bosses etc who all encouraged me to peruse science at the next level (alevels then uni).

      Hope you also have a nice day,
      Katie 🙂

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  • Photo: Philip

    Philip commented on :

    I think I pretty much knew I wanted to do physics after about a year of high school – I liked chemistry quite a lot too (pretty anything scientific except biology), but I also liked maths so think I already knew it had to be something with lots of maths in it and that’s what theoretical physics is.
    I guess I’d always liked maths right from elementary school and just as soon as I knew what physics was about that was where I wanted to be.

  • Photo: Amy

    Amy commented on :

    It was a gradual build based upon enjoyment of the subjects at school. I enjoyed science and got good GCSE results, so I decided to study physics, chemistry and maths for A-level. Whilst studying that, I found that I loved chemistry, so I decided to study that at university.