• Question: why did you want to be a scientist?

    Asked by hannahbrown1 to Emma, Jen, Joseph, Michael, Mona on 16 Jun 2011. This question was also asked by joshosborn1, emilybrockwell, byronplumridge, brittsz, anita, marybabes23, conorcrowe, kingnazzer786, fawcj001, emily124, laurynnicolesmith, meganpower, submarine3, jorjia.
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      Michael Taggart answered on 14 Jun 2011:

      I think, as I mentioned in some other answers, I kind of gravitated towards it when in school I was doing maths and chemistry and I realised I was usually asking why things are the way they are which then took me on to thinking well, how would you test this? So it was a kind of wish to learn but also a curiosity to try and find out some answers to questions by myself (not that you ever do it on your own – there’s always others helping in some way – but I think you’ll knwo what I mean). I also liked English and something called Modern Studies (20th Century history really) at school but, for me at least, in the end they didn’t offer a way of satisfying my curiosity in a way that a scientific subject seemed to promise.

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      Jen Gupta answered on 15 Jun 2011:

      I wanted to become a scientist so that I could understand how and why things worked. Things like learning the physics behind musical instruments really interested me because I also love playing the piano, flute and drums.

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      Emma Bennett answered on 16 Jun 2011:

      I don’t think that I ever sat down one day and said “I think I’ll become a scientist”, it’s just something that happened. I followed my interests and studied subjects which I liked and voila somehow I ended up doing a PhD.

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