• Question: did you work like a scientist when you were in school

    Asked by sullivan rules to Áine, Ciarán, Eoin, Lydia, Victoria on 17 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Lydia Bach

      Lydia Bach answered on 17 Nov 2014:

      Hey!

      I worked like a scientist in some subjects, like biology and chemistry. That’s because we would do experiments or observations and then use them to draw conclusions and learn something about an organisms or chemical.
      In other subjects I worked less like a scientist! 🙂

    • Photo: Ciarán O'Brien

      Ciarán O'Brien answered on 18 Nov 2014:

      I tried to be like a scientist in every subject. It didn’t really work for English and Irish. I like using as few words as possible to say what I mean, but those subjects demanded I just make stuff up and waffle. I *hate* waffling. And they could never just say what it was they wanted from me when I asked. I didn’t like the vagueness. So I didn’t score well in English/Irish exams, even though I was really good at them.

      Science and maths weren’t vague. They liked short, efficient language and didn’t ask stupid questions about what the scientist was feeling when he wrote that equation. We worked well together. 🙂

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