• Question: How old where you when you got interested in science?!

    Asked by Science Girl!!! to Monique, MariaMagdalena, Carsten, Bernard, Ashley on 7 Nov 2015. This question was also asked by sophiex, 795tntd24.
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      Monique Henson answered on 7 Nov 2015:

      I think I was probably 12 or 13. I didn’t mind science in primary school, but I tended to prefer English. When I got to secondary school, I started to get more interested in science. It wasn’t until I started my GCSE’s that I started to enjoy physics more than the other sciences. Physicists try to understand the universe – once I realised that, I was hooked.

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      Ashley Hughes answered on 8 Nov 2015:

      I wasn’t really into science at all at school….or in fact school in general – although I was always good at it!

      I left school early and did some other cool things for a couple of years and then decided I really wanted to come and do science, my choice of biochemistry was based entirely on it sounding interesting, and having a lot of options at the end of it. Like a lot of things, it was all very unplanned from the start.

      That said, I always had an interest in how and why stuff works – I guess it just took me a while to hone in on how I could incorporate this into some form of viable life plan

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      Carsten Welsch answered on 9 Nov 2015:

      I was always an explorer…already as a small child. So I guess curiosity to find answers to difficult questions has always been in me.

      At school I was mostly interested in maths, then chemistry and biology…and not really in physics until the final years of school. I got fascinated by particle accelerators during my undergraduate degree at university.

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