• Question: did u always want to be a scientist?

    Asked by 254xygg36 to Roisin, Michel, Mark, Gavin, Karen on 10 Nov 2016. This question was also asked by alex h., 868xygg26, 368xygg26, jessica.
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      Mark Kennedy answered on 10 Nov 2016:

      Not always. When I was 10, I wanted to be an astronaut (which pretty much means you also should be a scientist, but I didn’t know that at the time). Then, when I was 12, I wanted to be a writer. Then, from 14-16 I wanted to be an architect (that dream died after I did some work experience in an architects and didn’t like it).

      Then, at 16, I started chemistry and physics for leaving cert, and suddenly studying science seemed like a great idea since I liked both of those subjects, and I also enjoyed maths.

    • Photo: Roisin Jones

      Roisin Jones answered on 10 Nov 2016:

      Pretty much! When I was smaller, I wanted to be a paleontologist (that is, a scientist who works with dinosaurs), and then as I grew older, I wanted to be a science teacher, a computer engineer, an astrophysicist and then finally a chemistry researcher!

    • Photo: Karen

      Karen answered on 12 Nov 2016:

      It was up there as one of the things I wanted to do along with writing, medicine and art. Science in medicine won out in the end.

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