Question: why did you start studding science

Savannah Clawson answered on 12 Jun 2019:

I always enjoyed science because I liked learning about how everything works – I loved playing with toys like lego and solving puzzles as a child. However, science in school sometimes gets a bad name and I know I didn’t always find it thrilling in lessons. I think I mainly took science for my GCSEs because I was good at it and I knew that taking a lot of science courses would keep my options open in the future (science is a good subject for jobs because it shows that you are good at solving problems and that you can handle maths confidently). It wasn’t until my A-Levels that I really started to enjoy science, physics in particular. I dropped biology after GCSEs and dropped chemistry after the first year of my A-Levels so it was only physics that I studied all the way through school. I didn’t actually know that I wanted to be a physicist but I knew that I wanted to go to university so I had to pick something to study! I almost chose to study maths but I chose physics because it used maths to explain the world around me and the more I learned, the more crazy I realised that world was!
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So I kind of accidentally became a scientist! However, now that I am one, I know I wouldn’t have it any other way – I love my job because I get to learn new things every single day and we will never run out of science problems to solve which means my job will be useful forever 🙂