• Question: why did you want to study Science

    Asked by anon-279093 on 1 Feb 2021. This question was also asked by anon-280375, anon-280300.
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      Amal Lavender answered on 1 Feb 2021:


      I was always fascinated about how things worked and loved Maths – this showed up by a real passion for aircraft and travel – I also enjoyed seeing things happen and making things!

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      Amelia Gilio answered on 1 Feb 2021:


      I enjoyed doing experiments at school as it was always exciting to be be able to do something practical and see the results in real life instead of just reading about it in a text book. I also liked how logical science is and how problems could be solved by following rules and equations.
      This made me want to study sciences at A-Level. I then realised that science is very important for making the world a better place, such as finding ways to prevent climate change or finding new medicines and so I wanted to continue studying science to be able to help with this.

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      Martin Ward answered on 2 Feb 2021:


      I think I just kept doing the things that I enjoyed at school, and then later university. The things I enjoyed tended to be mathematics and science (chemistry and physics, not so much biology). I think I enjoyed being able to answer questions that people had and figure out why things happen.

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      Alin Elena answered on 2 Feb 2021:


      it happened by chance. I liked maths and computers but I did not have a clear idea… funny enough as a kid I wanted to be a truck driver… and spend quite some years in the summer working with my grandfather on his sheep farm. By chance when I was a teenager stumbled over physics and I liked it all that maths and computer programming I knew came in handy and I could use them for understanding nature… then the rest was just a long and not very straight road in working as a scientist.

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      Katie West answered on 2 Feb 2021:


      I really enjoyed science at school, and I’ve always been interested in how things work. I was lucky to have some great teachers and heads of science that encouraged me to take it to the next level.

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      Kat Hunter answered on 2 Feb 2021:


      I must have made that choice when i started thinking about university. I was doing sports science, art and chemistry. For me, chemistry was the most challenging but interesting subject which i knew that there would be plenty of career choices in and i wouldn’t get bored. I had no idea what I wanted to be (as most people) but science was interesting as you got to do practical work, understand how things work and also there’s an opportunity to discover new things. I love that it’s really hard some days but working through it is really satisfying.

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      Isabel Lewis answered on 2 Feb 2021:


      I was really interested in animals and I enjoyed biology at school, but I knew I didn’t want to be a vet. Once I went to college and studied animal management that is when I found my interest with animal diseases and wanted to study them further.

      At university I discovered research science and I fell in love with the lab and being able to answer questions and figure out why certain things happen.

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      Kate Dobson answered on 2 Feb 2021:


      When I was little I was always wanting to know how and why things worked – mainly in the natural world but also in engineering and buildings etc. I liked science at school (I think I liked that you could work out the perfectly “right” answer yourself in science by doing experiments) and just kept on doing what I enjoyed most as I went to university. At some point I realised that there is never really a “right answer”, only more questions, and for me that is why I like what Ido, it is never the same.

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      Neil Corcoran answered on 2 Feb 2021:


      I think I would say that I always had an interest in how things worked, and science helps you to be able to explain that. Also, when I got to secondary school there were lots of cool experiments to do – like making your hair stand on end with a Van de Graaf generator, and throwing lumps of sodium and potassium metal into water! Learning why these things happened was important to me, and it can help you be more creative.

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      Tereza Gerguri answered on 2 Feb 2021:


      I have always been super fascinated how stuff in general works, how nature works and what it is made of. When I did my first experiment in high school, I knew straight away that this is what I want to do. 🙂

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      Philip Ratcliffe answered on 2 Feb 2021: last edited 2 Feb 2021 3:16 pm


      Like most others I think: I really enjoyed physics, maths and chemistry right from the start and was good at them too (that always helps) and I wasn’t too hot on other subjects. So I just sort of naturally followed my instincts.
      I like doing things like crossword puzzles too; so I suppose it’s the challenge of trying to solve a problem or understand something new that I really like,

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      Moya Macdonald answered on 10 Feb 2021:


      I was always really passionate about nature and about protecting the environment. So when I was in the middle of secondary school I decided I wanted to focus on science so I could help understand and protect the environment in the future!

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