• Question: When dia you decide to be a scientist?

    Asked by Joan Saba to Carrie, Cedric, Ellen, Ines, Rupert on 8 Mar 2017. This question was also asked by Alex A, Han-solo28, Robbo+Homingpigeon :).
    • Photo: Carrie Ijichi

      Carrie Ijichi answered on 8 Mar 2017:

      When I was doing my PhD I realised how happy it made me and how well suited I was to doing research. When you find the thing that lights you up inside and gives you energy like that you know you should do i as your job. Some people aren’t lucky enough to find that thing but the more things you try the more likely you’ll work out what you really want.

    • Photo: Ines Goncalves

      Ines Goncalves answered on 8 Mar 2017:

      I was about 7 when I decided I wanted to be a marine biologist but of course I didn’t fully realise what it meant. I was still sure I wanted to study animals when I finished high school though, and so I studied Marine Biology and Zoology at University. I think the moment i really decided I wanted to be a scientist was when I started by bachelors thesis and for the first time did real science. It was an amazing feeling to be part of a group doing research, each with our own questions, but working together as a team.

    • Photo: Ellen Williams

      Ellen Williams answered on 9 Mar 2017:

      I fell into science because I had taken science A levels (because I had thought about being a vet). But I have always wanted to know ‘how’ and ‘why’. So I guess I decided when I first went to university when I was 18. I got more heavily involved in the animal welfare side when i was doing my masters degree a few years later

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      Rupert Marshall answered on 9 Mar 2017:

      I didn’t realise that wanting to study animal behaviour meant that I wanted to be a scientist – now I know this and realise that I am a scientist. Yay for that. So I decided to become a scientist when I decided I wanted to know more about bird song and the sound pictures it makes. And that was when I was doing my psychology degree when I was about 21

    • Photo: Cedric Tan

      Cedric Tan answered on 14 Mar 2017:

      Definitely when I was about 22 years old, that’s quite old you might say, but I was undecided as to whether I wanted to be a doctor or a scientist then.

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