• Question: when did you first discover your real passion for science

    Asked by imkattbtw to Rebecca, Matthew, Francesca, Andrew on 10 Nov 2014. This question was also asked by Bethany, Emilee, Lucymay12.
    • Photo: Rebecca Ingle

      Rebecca Ingle answered on 10 Nov 2014:

      I’ve always enjoyed science and particularly during my A levels, where I was doing a lot of maths and was introduced to quantum physics in physics, I started to become really interested in it and my interest has just really grown from there.

      Although I enjoyed my degree a lot I found that doing some summer work experience in a research lab made me realise that I absolutely wanted a career in research (although my work experience wasn’t in an area that I work now) and so when I did my masters project which was getting to do research on a topic I was really interested in, there was no doubt I wanted to do research as a career.

    • Photo: Matthew Camilleri

      Matthew Camilleri answered on 10 Nov 2014:

      I’ve always enjoyed asking questions, so it seems that I have always enjoyed science. I only realised that my thirst for knowledge was in fact the love of science in my early teens. At the beginning I did not even know that my passion to learn more was science, and that is what is great about science, everyone can do it by simply asking the right questions.

    • Photo: Francesca Palombo

      Francesca Palombo answered on 10 Nov 2014:

      I guess when I was a teen and I went on studying at a Scientific lyceum (high school)

    • Photo: Andrew McKinley

      Andrew McKinley answered on 11 Nov 2014:

      I knew I liked science all along, but I think i found a real passion for it during my A-levels, when our school had a ‘mentoring programme’. Essentially as A-level students, we were encouraged to support and mentor younger students (doing our subjects) who were perhaps struggling a bit. This really helped me to understand the basics of what I was learning – and it made me read more around my subject, learn more about chemistry outside the A-level curriculum, and I found it really interesting!
      I guess it started me down the career that I now find myself in: lecturing to students

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