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Asked by anon-247920 to Dan, Baptiste on 11 Mar 2020.
Question: How did you pick the field of science you wanted to pursue?
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Baptiste Ravina answered on 11 Mar 2020:
I think I started thinking about “science” when I was young, and as I was growing up and learning more I gradually narrowed it down, first to “physics” and eventually to “particle physics”. I’m at a point where my work is so specialised it could have its own subfield – even though the other people in my office also work in particle physics, they are looking at very different things and we’re constantly learning from one another.
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Dan Brunsdon answered on 17 Mar 2020:
I found my area by accident actually. I really enjoyed history in school, and so I chose to study that at college. I decided then to study ancient history, and so I took another year at college to study classics. Alongside this I took archaeology and anthropology. I ended up loving anthropology a lot more than I did history, and so decided to take it up at university. So it was a bit of a winding journey for me to find the area I want to work in, and all I’ve done since is find ways that I can make it more practical and incorporate it into different industries and jobs. That ultimately lead me to healthcare, and here I am today 🙂
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Kate commented on :
I really didn’t have a clue when I left school, mainly because there are lots of subjects that aren’t really taught as an invidual class in school. I studied Chemistry, Physics, Maths and Geology at when I started at university – and found that geology was amazing – it was all the best bits of what I knew as Geography at school – plus some physics and some chemistry and some maths…. and so much more! Remember to look at what other subjects are out there!