• Question: Did you know which field of science you wanted to work in when you were in secondary school?

    Asked by 549susa36 to Ahmed, Francesca, George, James, Nitheen on 10 Nov 2014. This question was also asked by gg, 352susa48.
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      James Sullivan answered on 10 Nov 2014:

      In secondary school I did Biology and Chemistry and when I went to UCC I thought I was going to be a biochemist.
      During 1st year at UCC I changed my mind and became a chemist – that’s a very common story. Hardly any of the chemistry lecturers I know started off university thinking they’d do chemistry.

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      Ahmed Osman answered on 10 Nov 2014:

      Yes I like Chemistry while I was child and this make it easy

    • Photo: Francesca Paradisi

      Francesca Paradisi answered on 10 Nov 2014:

      I don’t think I knew exactly. Even within chemistry which I loved there are many different fields. I think initially I wanted to be able to analyse things and see what they were made of. Only once in university I realised I preferred making things!

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      Nitheen Kaperi answered on 17 Nov 2014:

      Not really. I loved Mathematics more than Chemistry and Physics in high school. I really enjoyed problem solving. In College, I had all the science subjects for first two years i.e Chemistry, Physics, Maths, Biology. It was during those two years, I decided to take up Chemistry as my career / subject. I loved doing the experiments in chemistry laboratory.

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