• Question: when did you realise you wanted to be a scientist?

    Asked by esme to Sara, Peter, Siana, Carolyn, Richard on 11 Nov 2015. This question was also asked by R+J?, _jess_03, x_lozaloo_x.
    • Photo: Sara Falcone

      Sara Falcone answered on 11 Nov 2015:

      I always liked science, biology and medical science in particular, so I decided to study veterinary medicine because I liked medicine and animals.During the last year of uni I had to spend 6 months working in a animal hospital and I really didn’t really like it. Eventually, during my final test, one of the professors asked me “so, do you want to work with pets or with farm animals?”, I stopped I thought really hard and the only reply I could give was “Neither, I want to be a geneticist” . And that was my decision.

    • Photo: Peter Francis

      Peter Francis answered on 13 Nov 2015:

      I wanted to be an exercise scientist from age 16. I was running a high volume of miles at the time and was fascinated by changes in fitness and injury incidence.

    • Photo: Richard Unwin

      Richard Unwin answered on 18 Nov 2015:

      Hi Guys,

      At Uni. I always enjoyed science classes at school and wanted to go to Uni so I picked a science course simply because I’d always enjoyed them. It wasn’t until I started doing a small lab research project in the third year (so i was around 20-21 years old) when I knew that’s what i wanted to do.

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