• Question: did you want to when you when you were a child grow up to be a scientist?

    Asked by anon-223984 to Stuart, Lisa, Jack, Caragh, Scott, Alex on 10 Nov 2019. This question was also asked by anon-234734, anon-223954, anon-223951, anon-223989.
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      Stuart Goldie answered on 10 Nov 2019:

      I always wanted to know why things worked, but I wanted to fly helicopters and planes when I was a child; when I was 13 I started to get interested in doing science but didn’t know what job I wanted.

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      Jack Saunders answered on 12 Nov 2019:

      Yes! I have always loved science and nature, I love finding out how the world works and since I knew science was a job I have always wanted to do it!

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      Caragh Whitehead answered on 14 Nov 2019:

      I always wanted to solve problems and help people so I first thought I would be a detective as a child. When I got to secondary school I wanted to be a forensic scientist. It is only when I got to university that I decided to be come a research scientist.

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  • Photo: Jack

    Jack commented on :

    I never really knew what I wanted to do in Primary School, but then in High School I fell in love with both science and music. I knew I wanted to do one of those, and I was better at Chemistry than anything else. Because I was better at it, I enjoyed it more and so that’s why I chose to do it at University.

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    anon-223951 commented on :

    you are inspirational

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    Scott commented on :

    I wasn’t really sure! I used to really like acting and be in the drama and poetry group in primary school. But I was also part of the gardening club – so I guess I was always interested in what was on plants or eating them, and that was mainly insects. I think in secondary school was when I was really interested in science, mostly because it explained why the world functioned the way it did.