• Question: how did you know what area in science your were most interested in?

    Asked by doublel to Hitesh, Hywel, Mae, Nik, Tiffany on 16 Jun 2012. This question was also asked by katiemaisie.
    • Photo: Hywel Owen

      Hywel Owen answered on 16 Jun 2012:

      A lot of interests come about accidentally. That’s probably because most subjects are interesting if you look closely enough at them, and if you can see what the point is. The Discovery Channel has some nice programmes on this sort of thing.

      So maybe the real answer is that you start learning about a subject, get into it more and more, and by the time you’ve learnt something significant about it two things happen: you get really into it, and you’re able to do something useful with it.

      For me, I always wanted to know ‘the answer’, how to tell truth from fiction. So physics was the subject.

    • Photo: Mae Woods

      Mae Woods answered on 17 Jun 2012:

      When I was at school I didn’t really know which area was the most interesting, they were all interesting to me!

      After a while I realised that I really enjoyed solving mathematical problems as they are really like murder mysteries – have you done algebra yet? It’s really about elimination and finding out “whodunit” at the end of it all!

    • Photo: Nicola Ibberson

      Nicola Ibberson answered on 18 Jun 2012:

      I just went with the thing that left me thinking at the end of the day, the thing that I found challenging but interesting. I found genetics really fascinating and used to go home after a genetics lesson at school and try to track certain characteristics through my family to try and work out what alleles we must have inherited!

    • Photo: Tiffany Taylor

      Tiffany Taylor answered on 19 Jun 2012:

      I loved animals, and learning about all the different types that lived in the planet. I was also fascinated by life, and how it worked. It seemed so complicated! That I thought it must be some kind of magic. But the more I learnt about it I realised it wasn’t magic, but something even more amazing – science.

      Biology hooked me when I in primary school.

    • Photo: Hitesh Dave

      Hitesh Dave answered on 20 Jun 2012:

      When I was studying biology in my graduation I was really much interested about knowing the body tissues and their functions..and whether they are similar in animals and humans..so I selected Zoology as my main subject in my final year of graduation…

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