• Question: was it always your aim to be a scientist

    Asked by anon-39914 on 16 Nov 2022.
    • Photo: Vincent Monchal

      Vincent Monchal answered on 16 Nov 2022:

      No, I wanted to work on something related to nature and if possible mountains.

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      Vanessa Rodrigues answered on 16 Nov 2022:

      I never understood what ‘being a scientist’ meant. I did not have any exposure to it in school or even many years later.
      I wanted to be a Vet to save animal lives. Since I scored better in Math and Physics, I got into a great engineering school instead. It was different, and I just continued to enjoy the learning journey.
      I first experienced research during my Masters degree and I liked it. So, I gave it a shot.
      and Voila, 5 years later I was a scientist with a PhD degree.

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      Ingmar Schoen answered on 18 Nov 2022:

      No, I did not know what I would like to do/work for a quite long time because I had an interest in many different things. I also did not really know what a certain job really looked like.

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      Anna Desmond answered on 18 Nov 2022:

      Growing up it wasn’t my aim to be a scientist. I only started thinking about becoming a scientist when I was 16-17 years old.

    • Photo: Cristina Cuesta Marti

      Cristina Cuesta Marti answered on 30 Nov 2022:

      When I was very little I had clear that I wanted to be a teacher but as I was growing I realized that I prefered to be a researcher, and who knows if at some point I am also lecturer or professor, meaning to do both đŸ˜‰

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