• Question: did you ever have a point in from year5 to 11 where you would have said to yourself I have science or science is really boring?

    Asked by laz1100 to Rupert, Ines, Ellen, Carrie on 5 Mar 2017.
    • Photo: Ines Goncalves

      Ines Goncalves answered on 5 Mar 2017:

      Ha! Well, “science” is very, very broad… I’ve always loved biology and I used to be quite good at chemistry in high school, but I confess I had some problems learning physics. It definitely wasn’t my favourite subject.

    • Photo: Rupert Marshall

      Rupert Marshall answered on 5 Mar 2017:

      When I was 11 I thought biology sounded interesting but it seemed to be lots of plants, cells and “bits” of things -and I couldn’t seem to draw very well either. So I didn’t actually study it at school (well, not after I was 12). I other subjects like music, maths and geography. But I did watch a tv programme when I was about 16 which was all about how they discovered the structure of DNA. It was like an exciting crime drama with the scientists trying to find the answer before anyone else. I liked the idea of thinking up new ideas and the process of discovering new facts. I suppose this stayed in the back of my mind and eventually led me to becoming a real scientist: someone who gets paid to ask “why?” and “how?” and find out the answers – although I still haven’t found the answers to all my questions: I keep coming up with more!

    • Photo: Carrie Ijichi

      Carrie Ijichi answered on 6 Mar 2017:

      I didn’t enjoy science at school and I never would have thought I would be a scientist back then! Being a scientist is about asking important questions and then coming up with a way to find the answer as truthfully as you can. That is never boring but I guess that bit comes after school.

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      Ellen Williams answered on 7 Mar 2017:

      I didn’t find science boring… i don’t recall finding anything boring. BUT there were huge chunks of it that I just plain didn’t understand! I did all 3 sciences at GCSE and I started taking Biology and Chemistry at A level. I had a bad time with Physics when on one multiple choice paper I got less than the monkey would have got (based on random selection!). I dropped Chemistry at AS level because I reached a point where i was pretty much scraping through. Even through university (we did a common first year) there were still chunks I didn’t understand (namely cells, and plants!). Then i realised that I just wasn’t looking at the right bit of science for me 🙂

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