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Asked by anon-254282 on 12 May 2020. This question was also asked by anon-253402.
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Lori-Ann Foley answered on 12 May 2020:
I loved all the sciences. I thought they were fun and I loved doing experiments. And the best bit is learning how things work – from microwaves to cars to the universe! I still love learning today.
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Scott Lawrie answered on 12 May 2020:
I loved Graphic Design. It was basically art and science combined to make detailed technical drawings. Although I’m a scientist now, my favourite part is actually designing new kit which all comes from my love of Graphics! Just goes to show that you can like all kinds of different things to be a scientist 😉
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Helena Bates answered on 12 May 2020:
My favourite subject was probably the sciences, particularly physics and anything to do with space. My physics teacher was fab and he let me study astronomy GCSE when I was in 6th form. There were definitely aspects of physics I didn’t enjoy though, and I remained rubbish at maths all the way through until I left school. I remember maths used to make me cry with frustration all the time! I absolutely loved studying music as well, it was so fun and creative – part of my GCSE coursework was to compose a dance song?! My GCSE history teacher was the best teacher I’ve ever had (much love to Mrs Wayne) so history holds a special place in my heart as well.
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Malgorzata Drwila answered on 12 May 2020:
Geography was always my favourite subject. I loved learning about the nature, planet(s) and weather. It was all beautiful and captivating for me. Although, I didn’t like the demography part, just the physical geography. That’s why I decided to study geophyscis, which turned out was something very different, but also something way cooler than simple geography.
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Joel Goldstein answered on 12 May 2020:
Hard to choose between physics and maths – in both cases, I really enjoyed the feeling of understanding something fundamental about the way the universe worked.
Which is probably why I decided to do that for a living…
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Marios Kalomenopoulos answered on 12 May 2020:
I really liked physics and maths! In Greece, as part of maths, we were also doing a lot of geometry that I loved! It’s like solving quizzes 🙂
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James M Monk answered on 13 May 2020:
I think we tend to mis-remember this sort of thing and construct explanations after the fact for what we now know about ourselves. For example, I’m now a scientist, so I’d expect that science was my favourite. That’s the kind of bias you need to be aware of as a scientist!
That said, I remember maths and history as enjoyable, and also the science subjects too. It probably helps that I was good at those things, though in the case of maths I also remember it came with a disproportionate amount of homework!
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Paula Koelemeijer answered on 13 May 2020:
I enjoyed all the different sciences (physics, maths, chemistry), as well as some of the languages. To me, maths was quite similar to studying ancient Greek, effectively solving puzzles! Funnily, I never really liked biology, and I only had this for one year in school!
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Anne Green answered on 13 May 2020:
Maths, not physics! In fact I enjoyed both history and music more than physics at school. However I discovered cosmology outside of school, through popular science books and TV programs. In many ways cosmology is quite similar to history; you have to try and understand things based on limited (possibly biased) evidence. I chose to study physics at university because while I really enjoy doing maths, I want to have a reason for doing it (and I’m nowhere near talented enough to have a career as a musician).
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Chris Oliver answered on 13 May 2020:
I always loved science, even since primary school. When I started doing science separately in year 9 I realised I particularly liked physics. Strangely I really didn’t like maths at all until close to the end of secondary school, even though I now work on theoretical physics!
I also really liked foreign languages, which were French and German in my school, because I enjoyed learning about other peoples’ countries and languages are really useful. I do regret not carrying on with those – I only did them up to GCSE level.
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Victoria Anderson-Matthew answered on 13 May 2020: last edited 13 May 2020 10:29 am
My favourite were ICT and Art. I enjoyed ICT as we learnt to code and you could see how things worked from the code we had entered.
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Jordan McElwee answered on 13 May 2020:
I actually really didn’t like the sciences… my favourite was Drama! I loved doing stage work and the creative side of things. It’s probably why I enjoy doing outreach activities so much 🙂
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Alex Leide answered on 13 May 2020:
My favourite was history, I loved reading and the history teacher was really fun so we watched lots of videos. Even though I enjoyed history, I wasn’t very good at it!
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Isabel Palmer answered on 13 May 2020:
I am a physicist now but at school physics actually frustrated me a little bit as it felt like we often had to accept facts without much explanation/understanding. I think liked Maths and Art best – in art we were allowed to make ourselves a cup of tea and in maths we had a biscuit rota (to get us through the three maths lessons my further maths class ended up with on Friday afternoons!).
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Emma Shanks answered on 13 May 2020:
Music, geography (physical), chemistry, maths, physics – probably in that order! I understand things when they’re in patterns, shapes, drawings or graphs. So sheet music, maps, molecule diagrams, logic drawings, they all make sense to me.
I’ve always enjoyed drawing things to scale, in plan view, or 3D (less good at that!). And I did think about following that path professionally, perhaps as an architect or technical/engineering drawing.
And I still love pouring over a map. 🙂
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John Davies answered on 13 May 2020:
I liked Chemistry because ‘Chemists have Solutions’. I also think it was because my teacher, Mr O A Allen was just a fun guy and made it interesting. I got good at chemical equations and moving imaginary electrons around to keep the valances right. I liked physics also, and Mr E E Williams was a good guy, still keen on teaching physics even though he was about to retire and so seemed very old to us. The problem was that the physics syllabus in 1970 was stuck in the 1850’s. We had Moon landings, nuclear power, ICBMs, Concorde and lasers in the news every day, but in the lab I was learning 5 different ways to find the focal length of a lens with candles, pins and talcum powder! I did biology too, but I wasn’t so keen on that. I finished up with a PhD in Chemistry, but I’ve never done any chemistry in my life since I graduated.
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Krishna Mooroogen answered on 13 May 2020:
I really liked the sciences as well as economics, I had two really great teachers that made the experience engaging and gave a lot of encouragement to learn more outside of class. My year 11 science teacher gave me Bill Bryson’s Short History of Nearly Everything – that basically sealed the deal on me wanting to be a scientist.
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Susan Cartwright answered on 14 May 2020:
Maths, probably, but to be honest I wasn’t over-fond of school. I got more out of my own reading than I did out of school teaching.
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anon answered on 14 May 2020:
Physics, hands down. Math close second, then Biology and Chemistry. Every school I went to (changed about 8 in total because of moving around much) was heavy on Natural Sciences though, and, regrettably, subjects like art, music, dance and religion didn’t even exist yet – which I feel is a huge loss. Developing in very different areas is very important for our brains, helps us think outside the box – nowadays, there is a lot of innovation coming from putting very different subjects together.
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Rosie Hayward answered on 14 May 2020:
My favourite subject was Art, and I also really liked English Literature. I was encouraged to take science and maths at college, and then really fell in love with them. I also realised I hate doing art for work, and only enjoy doing it for fun, so I made the right choice!
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Emily Webster answered on 15 May 2020:
I really enjoyed studying all the sciences and geology at school.
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Gabriel Gallardo answered on 20 May 2020:
Physics 🙂
Although now that I’m older, I find myself interested in all sorts of other things like economics, politics, philosophy, theology, and music.
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Luke commented on :
Totally the sciences…. I particularly enjoyed Biology as its fascinating to understand how living things work.