• Question: What made you want to do science?

    Asked by Millierosehep on 21 Sep 2016. This question was also asked by anon-223737.
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      Rebecca Dewey answered on 21 Sep 2016:


      I was just really nosey – I wanted the excitement of being the first to find out new stuff.

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      John Allport answered on 21 Sep 2016:


      Like Rebecca, I’m just really inquisitive – I like to find out how things work

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      Ollie Brown answered on 21 Sep 2016:


      In the end, it mostly just came down to following the things I enjoyed doing the most. Apparently that’s programming and maths, so here we are 😛

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      Katie Mahon answered on 21 Sep 2016:


      I didn’t set out to do science & engineering, I just kept up the subjects I enjoyed. I was really interested in how stuff works, and why things are designed a certain way. That led me to Mechanical Engineering!

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      Katie Sparks answered on 21 Sep 2016:


      It’s just so much fun. I was mainly a “what’s going on there then?” type thing for me and then you end up learning lots of different things, seeing different connections, it’s just so interesting!

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      Shona Whittam answered on 21 Sep 2016:


      I did science because it was what I was good at and I enjoyed it. I was a lot better at physics and maths than english. You can probably tell english wasn’t my strong point if you read my profile :-/

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      Evan Keane answered on 22 Sep 2016:


      Curiosity 🙂

      I already pretty much answered this one in detail here too: /careers-zone/2016/09/21/why-did-you-choose-to-be-a-scientist/ if that helps.

      Evan

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      Hayley Moulding answered on 22 Sep 2016:


      I was also really inquisitive! You can usually tell the scientists – they are always asking questions and exploring! We ask more questions and sometimes annoy people because we want to know where things come from. We aren’t happy being told that something does something else – we want to know why!

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      Ian Hands-Portman answered on 22 Sep 2016:


      Constant curiosity! I’ve had microscopes since I was eight, used to fiddle around with electronics, grow things, pull mechanical things apart ( and sometimes manage to put them back together ), I’ve always wanted to know how things work and what’s inside them.

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      Jennifer Stephens answered on 15 Sep 2017:


      It’s fun and you’re learning new things all the time.

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      Melanie Zimmer answered on 6 Oct 2017:


      Hi Millierosehep,

      I honestly never really planned to become a scientist in the first place – one thing just led to another!

      Back at school I always enjoyed maths – but also arts! Up until my last year, I would have never ever thought about studying maths – but that’s what I did after I graduated from school!
      During my maths studies I had computer science lectures, which I enjoyed so much that I decided to study computer science for my Master’s programme.
      And after my studies I worked for a research institute that gave me the chance of doing a PhD – and that’s where I am now! 🙂

      Mel

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      Cheryl Williams answered on 24 Nov 2019:


      I really enjoyed science in high school, particularly biology. I was interested in anatomy and how the body worked. I had two really great science teachers who saw some potential in me and encouraged me to do triple science for GCSE. I had (and still have) a lot of support from my family too.

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      Hayley Pincott answered on 5 Dec 2019:


      I didn’t want to do a typical science job working in a lab. I had visions of it being sitting at a bench with a bunsen burner figuring out reactions on a blackboard and that really didn’t appeal to me. It’s only when I started working in a lab, that I realised that working in a Biomedical Science lab is what I wanted a career in. So it’s only when I started to apply practical hands on duties to science (and not just sitting in a classroom or lecture hall) that I loved what I did and wanted to become a Biomedical Scientist, which I’m still trying to work towards.

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