• Question: why did you choose to become a scientist ?

    Asked by anon-207876 to William, Silvia, Scott, Oliver, Natalie, Michelle, Lowri on 5 Mar 2019. This question was also asked by anon-207879, anon-207877, anon-208185, anon-207486.
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      Scott Graham answered on 5 Mar 2019:

      I actually left school not sure of what I wanted to do. I had a strong interest in science particularly forensics and I also liked the idea of becoming an architect. I decided to do a course in biological science to see how much I actually enjoyed it. During my course I decided that forensics science was not for me (its not the same as what you see on CSI or NCIS) however I became interested in microbiology and decided to continue doing science doing a HND. I enjoyed microbiology so much I went to university to study my BSc Hons in Microbiology and Biotechnology. I also continued studying full time whilst juggling a full time job to complete my MSc Biomedical Science

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      Natalie Lamb answered on 5 Mar 2019:

      I didn’t mean to become a scientist. I just thought biology was interesting so did a BSc Biology at university to learn more about biology. Then I thought microorganisms were interesting so I did an MSc (a one year qualification) so I could spend a year doing research into it and learning more. I enjoyed my MSc so now I am doing my PhD to spend 3-4 years, even more time, learning about the same thing. I have just followed what I enjoyed, really

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      Lowri Evans answered on 5 Mar 2019:

      I didn’t really choose to become a scientist. I just continued to follow my interest, which has always been something to do with marine animals! I am a very curious person.

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      Michelle Valkanas answered on 6 Mar 2019:

      I wanted to be a scientist because I have always asked a lot of “why questions”. Science lets me try to answer those questions! Science lets you do some pretty incredible things, it is always exciting.

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      Silvia Imberti answered on 6 Mar 2019: last edited 6 Mar 2019 11:01 am

      In school I always liked how physics can explain many different phenomena with few key concepts, so for example WAVES concepts can be used to explain some of what we commonly recognise as waves (in water!) as well as sound, music, colours all the way up to signal transmission.
      In a similar way, I liked that with the same bricks, say carbon, you can build materials with properties as diverse as the graphite in your pencils and the diamonds in my treasure chest (I wish). But I didn’t really want to continue after my MSc, except then I really like doing physics (an experimental project I did for my master project), even more than I liked studying (which I was getting tired of).

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