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Asked by jamiex16 to Tom, Tim, Sarah, Derek, Dalya on 19 Jun 2011. This question was also asked by maxx, madiya, fabgurlb6, snowy123, hopesilveira, winter, marinesummer, mi4199, emmagrace, catherinea, aisha111.
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Sarah Thomas answered on 10 Jun 2011:
This might sound daft, but I just liked science as school. I didn’t like Physics as it was too hard for me and there was too much maths in it, but I liked Chemistry and Biology. I just found it really interesting and I liked the classes because you got to do experiments and move around the class and actually do things youself. And sometimes my chemistry teacher would get bored so he would get the potassium out and explode it in some water!
Chemistry was my worst subject in school and I only got a C in it in 6th year, but it’s what I enjoyed so I decided to go and study Chemistry at Uni. I find it easy to study when you find something interesting!
I would always advise people to choose subject they like at school, it makes it easier to stick with it! My brother who is 17, took Physics last year because he thought he needed it to get into Uni but he hated it and dropped out halfway through the year. I remember when he called me to tell me he was thinking about dropping it. He said, “Am I doing the right thing?” and I said, “Look, if you aren’t enjoying it now, then how hard is it going to be for you to study it for 4 years at Uni? You’d hate it!”. Now he’s decided to do Computer Science at Uni instead and he did much better in his other subjects when he wasn’t stressing about Physics anymore!
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Tim Millar answered on 10 Jun 2011:
I was good at it in school and interested enough and maybe challenged enough by biology in particular and by my teachers to want to do it for the rest of my life
I have sometimes fallen out of love with it, but these times were very short and I soon found myself becoming enthusiastic about it again, which is good because its now my career.
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Derek McKay-Bukowski answered on 10 Jun 2011:
I’ve always been interested in science (see http://ias.im/42.158 ), so the motivation to be one has certainly always been there. Not only was that something I wanted to become, but I started reading about it as much as I could. As a result, I knew more and more, and thus did quite well at it at school. So, as it was something I wanted to do, and it was something I was good at, it happened! Mind you, I’m not good at all science… just the bits I like.
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Dalya Soond answered on 11 Jun 2011:
Because it suits my personality and interests well. It’s laid back, informal, liberal, quite sociable, I get to move around a lot every day (although you could also sit at a computer a lot in other fields, including biology), there is a lot of opportunity to travel and even if you don’t take it up, you are exposed to people from around the world and their different cultures, and you get to ask lots of questions.
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Tom Crick answered on 19 Jun 2011:
Because I was good at physics and maths and found it interesting! I find some parts of science to be so amazing, that I am amazed/disappointed when others do not — how can you not be interested in how the world works?! Or want to understand some of the fundamental questions of science?
I think curiosity is important: a desire to find answers.
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