• Question: When did you find out you liked science?

    Asked by xbubblelovex to SJ, Gem, Andrew, Ash, Paige on 22 Jun 2012. This question was also asked by luckythapar, olive2, chloexxxx, generalspaz246.
    • Photo: SarahJayne Boulton

      SarahJayne Boulton answered on 22 Jun 2012:

      I found out by accident, when I realised that being interested in why things worked was in fact being interested in science.

      For example – I fully love baking.

      I wonder how the cake rises in the oven.

      I consider the baking powder in the cake mixture breaking down as it heats up to make carbon dioxide which rises through the mix and is trapped by the stretchy gluten in the flour. I think how the whole cake sets as the protein in the eggs I added begins to solidify as it too gets hotter in the oven.

      Then I think POW!! I just did chemistry! …and that I’m about to do biology when I can find a knife and a plate and a cup of tea.

    • Photo: Gemma Staite

      Gemma Staite answered on 23 Jun 2012:

      Ever since I was little I was fascinated by the human body, how it worked and how disease affected it. From there my passion for it grew, or at least for human biology and disease. I’m still not so keen on plant biology.

    • Photo: Paige Brown

      Paige Brown answered on 25 Jun 2012:

      When I was about 4 years old, I was already using my toy doctor set on my little sister. 🙂

      I loved science, especially biology, since a very young child. I collected rocks as geology samples, I collected insects in my wonderful and humane bug ‘house’ trap, I read every biology book I could get my hands on. I built toy volcanoes out of baking soda, I dissected frogs in high school (under the supervision of my teachers!). I always LOVED science.

    • Photo: Andrew Thomas

      Andrew Thomas answered on 27 Jun 2012:

      I used to take my toys apart to find out what made them worked, from a very young age. I got a chemistry set for Christmas when I was about 8 years old and I loved that and my friend had an electronics set that we used to play with. When were were 10 or 11 me and my friend used to fix old record players and build elaborate speaker arrangements (he went on to become an electrician). I carried on with this when I started playing electric guitar, fiddling with components and trying to build my own effects pedals and amplifiers. I think it’s something you’re probably born with but you don’t realise ’til you’re older that it is science.

    • Photo: Ashley Cadby

      Ashley Cadby answered on 2 Jul 2012:

      I found out I liked science about 1 year before I took my GCSEs, which meant that I hadn’t really done enough work.

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