• Question: science is so long why did you pick to learn more about it after secondary?

    Asked by anon-217192 to Savannah, Philippe, Lucy, Joanna, Harrison, Edoardo on 12 Jun 2019.
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      Joanna Huang answered on 12 Jun 2019:


      I think I picked it because it was just something I really liked. In general that’s a good way to go about picking subjects to study 🙂 if you really like it, then you will be more motivated to study it, and you will do a good job in that subject

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      Savannah Clawson answered on 12 Jun 2019:


      I chose to study more science because it was what really interested me! You should always try to study things that interest you because these are the subjects that you will want to put effort into and therefore you will do better in – so it’s a win-win situation. Remember that what interests one person may be completely boring to someone else and that is totally fine. For example, I always hated learning history and it still doesn’t really interest me today – we are all very different people!
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      One thing I would say is that if you don’t like science at the moment, don’t give up on it just yet. You are still young and your interests are likely to change very quickly in school (this goes for any of your subjects). This is exactly what happened for me – I thought I was going to be a graphic designer until I was 16 but I ended up as a physicist! If you already love science, then that’s great – stick at it 😉

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      Harrison Prosper answered on 12 Jun 2019: last edited 12 Jun 2019 9:32 pm


      Because learning about how the world works is exciting and well worth the effort. If the night is clear today, please go outside and look up at the sky. Don’t you want to know how you are connected to the stars? Don’t you want to know what they are? Don’t you want to know how long they last? The Sun is our nearest star. Don’t you want to know how long we have before it destroys our planet? Don’t you want to know why we have seasons and why the day with the most daylight occurs around June 21st? Don’t you want to know why we sometimes get sick? Don’t you want to know why we get old? There are so many questions to ask of Nature, we shall never run out of them. My curiosity about the world is deep and I hope that is true of you too. I have a 22-month old grandson; there is nothing he does not find interesting. Remember, always, that we all started that way, deeply curious.

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      Edoardo Vescovi answered on 13 Jun 2019: last edited 12 Jun 2019 11:58 pm


      Science takes years at school because studies many aspects of nature. We’re probably all physicists here, but there other areas like geology, engineering, medicine and so on. Learning more one about a particular topic requires even more years and makes more specialised, like a vulcanologist predicting an eruption, an engineer building a bridge or a surgeon in heart surgery.

      Given this, why still science? If one were a soccer fan, he wouldn’t mind watching all matches of the world cup. The same goes for any other passion when time goes by without getting bored. Have also a look at the answers to previous similar questions.

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      Philippe Gambron answered on 17 Jun 2019:


      Because it’s interesting and, even a long time after having graduated, we keep learning and studying, just for fun.

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