• Question: did you grow up loving science or did you have a different hobby before

    Asked by Anon to Ashley, Bernard, Carsten, Monique on 7 Nov 2015.
    • Photo: Monique Henson

      Monique Henson answered on 7 Nov 2015:

      I wasn’t too interested in science until I got to secondary school. In primary school my favourite subject was English because I really liked reading. I got more interested in science in secondary school. I realised that through science I could figure out to all of the questions I had about the universe.

      When I started to like science more in secondary school, I still had other hobbies. I really liked swimming and reading, and I played netball for my school.

    • Photo: Ashley Hughes

      Ashley Hughes answered on 8 Nov 2015:

      From another question…

      “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”

      As for hobbies in high school I loved Football (and was relatively good at it), other than that I didn’t have a defined hobby per se, just hanging out with mates causing mischief! Since then I play guitar, and I’ve done various silly sports such as white water kayaking, power kiting and climbing 🙂

    • Photo: Carsten Welsch

      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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