• Question: Did you want to study science when you were young? If not what did you want to study?

    Asked by scarletti0611 to Laura, Nicola, Norman, Thanasis, Sandra on 9 Mar 2013. This question was also asked by kathrine, jelly10, ellierc, jessamy, animecatears, ashclass, jammydodger27x, thehoneymonster.
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      Thanasis Georgiou answered on 9 Mar 2013:

      Sort of, yes. I remember when I was in my final years in school I was between torn between studying for physics or computer science. They both count as science, right?

      So what I did was to do a degree in both! At the end of the day I prefer to refer to myself as a physicist, but the skills that I have acquired in my computer science degree has helped me become a better scientist.

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      Nicola Wardrop answered on 10 Mar 2013:

      Well when I was really young I couldn’t decide between ballet dancer, boxer and marine biologist, so in my imagination I was all 3! When I was about 13 my teachers thought I wasn’t very clever, so then I thought I’d join the army. By the time I was about 15 I realised I could go to university if I wanted, so it was then that I decided on some sort of biology subject.

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      Laura Soul answered on 10 Mar 2013:

      I didn’t no, I always found science really interesting, but didn’t really like science lessons in school. I enjoyed doing a lot of different things when I was younger so it took me a long time to choose something. For a long time I wanted to study music, and then then geography. As it turned out I ended up studying geology which is very similar to some parts of geography. When I started studying geology I found it way more interesting and fun than anything I’d done before, so I just carried on doing it!

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