• Question: Did you always want to be a scientist since you were young ?

    Asked by 746speq38 to Stephen, Sita, Rory, Hannah, Brian, Alison on 4 Mar 2019. This question was also asked by Maria and Sadhbh.
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      Sita Karki answered on 4 Mar 2019:


      Nope, I used to dream of being pilot, but I was not very good in physics and I changed my major.

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      Rory Scarrott answered on 4 Mar 2019:


      Nope, but I always behaved like a scientist, constantly questioning everything I saw around me. If I can remember correctly, I wanted to be a pilot, a starfighter (Star Wars and Start Trek probably brought that one about), a dinosaur, and at one point a jungle explorer.

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      Brian OConnor answered on 4 Mar 2019:


      Yes, I always did. My careers advisory teacher suggested I studied law though!

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      Hannah Currivan answered on 4 Mar 2019:


      I wanted to study physics from the age of 12, because I loved watching documentaries on astronomy and space science. But prior to that I wanted to be an Historian.
      The funny think is I wanted to watch a history documentary on ancient Egypt one day when I was around 11-12 years old, but what came up instead was “The Universe” documentary which was about “how the Sun was formed”, and ever since then I wanted to be a physicist/engineer.
      So my interest in history made me a physicist. 🙂 🙂 🙂

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      Alison Dufresne answered on 4 Mar 2019:


      Nope, I played around with lot’s of potential careers when I was a kid. There was a while when I wanted to be a dancer, a philosopher, a volcanologist.. My CAO form was a mess! I don’t think I decided to study engineering until the day I got my acceptance letter from the University.

    • Photo: Stephen O'Connor

      Stephen O'Connor answered on 7 Mar 2019:


      No I wanted to be a footballer, or an adventurer of some kind – exploring jungles and mountains finding new animals and plants 😀

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