• Question: when did you want to be a scientist

    Asked by 352mcrk35 to Lea, Emma, Christopher, Ashley, Ananthi, Aaron on 7 Nov 2017.
    • Photo: Ashley Otter

      Ashley Otter answered on 7 Nov 2017:

      I thought during college that I wanted to be a biology teacher (mostly A-levels) but then when I started university, I realised how much I did love microbiology and that’s all I wanted to learn, research and teach 🙂

    • Photo: Emma Stevenson

      Emma Stevenson answered on 7 Nov 2017:

      I knew when I did my GCSEs that I wanted to do something in science. But I didn’t know quite what. I thought about medicine, being a vet or a researcher. In the end my grades at a-level ultimately determined what I could do. But it all worked out for the best in the end!

    • Photo: Lea Carlesso

      Lea Carlesso answered on 7 Nov 2017:

      I always wanted to keep learning. Since I am really young. I did not think I could do anything. It is quite naturally (and a little bit by default) that I did a master degree in research (it is how it is called in France). However, I realised that I really wanted to do my life career in research the first time I did an internship in a lab (during my 1st year of master). I had to carry my own project from the beginning to the end and I found it rewarding, I just could not quit anymore.

    • Photo: Ananthi Ramachandran

      Ananthi Ramachandran answered on 7 Nov 2017:

      I loved Biology from GCSE times, and I always thought about doing medicine….however I watched a bit too much TV during my GCSE/A Level times instead of revising and didn’t get the high grades needed so ended up doing Biological Sciences at uni instead with the idea of going into medicine after uni….BUT I changed my mind when I found microbiology and decided to go for that instead and I haven’t looked back since!

    • Photo: Aaron Brown

      Aaron Brown answered on 7 Nov 2017:

      Science was always my favourite subject at school and I never really knew you could be a scientist until I went to University. That was great news as it meant I could start a job/career based around my favourite school subject 🙂

    • Photo: Christopher Richardson

      Christopher Richardson answered on 8 Nov 2017:

      Halfway through university when I knew that I enjoyed doing my own experiments and going away to look things up and finding out stuff that you would never have been taught by a teacher!

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