• Question: How did you get into science, where you always intrested from a young age?! from Tom :)

    Asked by tombussy to Aime, Akshat, Diana, Gemma, Judith on 17 Jun 2011. This question was also asked by amy0306, philpot, 46turkishdelight, priestclarke, williams, msmith, jrush.
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      Judith McCann answered on 16 Jun 2011:

      I had a mad chemistry teacher (for GCSE) who had done every science related job, from working in the oil industry, to drug research to home brewing beer in her basement-she had massive enthusiasm for everything and helped me see how science can be related to everyday lives. make you realise how important it is but also helps you remember things!!

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      Gemma Sharp answered on 16 Jun 2011:

      I wasn’t particularly interested in it when I was younger. I quite liked it in year 9 but not so much for GCSE. I took Biology for A level because I was interested in that the most, and that’s probably when I got really interested in it. Then I ended up doing it at uni and it just kept getting more interesting 🙂

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      Aimé Fournier answered on 16 Jun 2011:

      Please see http://ias.im/37.518

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      Diana Samuel answered on 17 Jun 2011:

      Yeah, very much so – I can clearly remember some of the experiments we carried out in primary school, like growing cress from seeds, and another where we placed a piece of celery in a glass containing blue dye and observed the liquid being drawn up within the celery; it was pretty cool! My interest in science continued to grow from there. At GCSE level, I developed a preference for biology, and so I ended up studying this at university. My curiosity and fascination with the subject still hasn’t stopped!

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