• Question: Did you know you always wanted to do something involving science? And did youstruggly with sciena at school?

    Asked by to Ian, Claire, Sergey, Vicky, Zena on 16 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by , , , , , , , .
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      Sergey Lamzin answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      I did not struggle with science at school, I struggle with the teachers who for some reason did not like me skipping their classes…

      As a matter of fact I never wanted to be a scientist.

      I wanted to be a professor. I wanted to teach science.
      But for that you have to become a scientist first, so here I am.

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      Zena Hira answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      I wanted to me many things when i was at school. I wanted to do Computer science , mathematics and music. I ended up doing computer science since it had both maths and programming.

      I never struggled at school

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      Vicky Schneider answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      I knew I loved to watch animals…I did not see it so much as science, I actually don’t think I ever saw myself as a scientist while at school. I had a constant feeling I was not good at maths, not sure why cause I did well…and I found chemistry quite easy and physics also something I actually did enjoy…but I was then much more into arts, music and as I say a love for nature and animals 🙂

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      Claire Shooter answered on 17 Jun 2014:

      I didn’t really know what I wanted to do when I was at school, only that I didn’t want to sit in an office doing something boring and meaningless every day – I loved science but I wasn’t very good at chemistry at school! I can be really scatterbrained which can lead to a lot of mistakes in the lab: in my AS practical exam I turned a liquid pink instead of cloudy and not even my teacher could work out how! I broke a lot of glassware too…
      How you are at school doesn’t dictate what you’ll be like forever. I’ve learned to be less scatterbrained since then, but I still make mistakes sometimes. It’s not the end of the world though – penicilin waa discovered by accident after all!

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      Ian Simpson answered on 17 Jun 2014:

      I always knew I wanted to be a scientist which looking back is a bit strange as I didn’t know any. I guess I just loved science at school and I read around a bit from quite an early age.

      I didn’t struggle particularly although I do remember having a massive nose-bleed in my biology practical exam at A-level and was very worried that I’d blown it (the exam, not my nose). True story, but I’ll fetch my coat anyway….

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