• Question: How long has it taken you to become a neuroscientist?

    Asked by 225cara48 to Sarah on 24 Jan 2018.
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      Sarah Finnegan answered on 24 Jan 2018:

      Well I started my undergraduate degree at 18 and I finished my PhD at age 28 so 10 years for me, but I know people who have taken 7 years and some who have taken many more years. For me, during a lot of that time I was actually employed to work as a scientist so I was able to earn money and work towards my PhD at the same time.

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    Rebecca commented on :

    I wasn’t planning on becoming a neuroscientist when I started my physics degree. I wanted to do particle physics. But when I got there, I wasn’t enjoying it so much, so I changed my mind and started doing more medical physics. I didn’t think about neuroscience until I started my PhD (2008) and I guess by the end of my PhD (2012) I was a real neuroscientisit! So 4 years!