• Question: When did you decide that you wanted to study science at uni?

    Asked by Mrs K'Ski to Christie, Dan, David, Dawn, Sian on 14 Jun 2016.
    • Photo: Dan Lewis

      Dan Lewis answered on 14 Jun 2016:

      I decided to study science after I had completed my A levels in non science related subjects. I think working in a pharmacy and finding my work really interesting made me want to change so I went back to college and studied hard and chose pharmacology, it’s never to late to change your mind.

    • Photo: Christie Waddington

      Christie Waddington answered on 14 Jun 2016:

      I had decided when I was half-way through my Classics degree. At A level I just took subjects I liked rather than with a career in mind. Most scientists have Chemistry A level but I don’t as I found Chemistry boring.

      I knew I had made the wrong degree choice as I kept sneaking off to my friends’ biomedical science lectures! As Dan said, it is never too late to change your mind and you don’t have to go straight to university after A levels if you’re still undecided! You don’t have to have all the answers when you’re at school!

    • Photo: Dawn Lau

      Dawn Lau answered on 14 Jun 2016:

      I decided almost right before my applications to university. Originally I wanted to study psychology, but after reading many books on psychology and neuroscience, I thought the latter was more interesting.

    • Photo: David Robertson

      David Robertson answered on 18 Jun 2016:

      Probably in about 4th year of secondary school. I liked maths and physics and chemistry. When I went to University I did courses in these three subjects in first year, and decided I didn’t like chemistry so much so tried to do a joint degree in maths and physics. I then found the abstract maths very difficult so ended up doing just a physics degree.
      From all of this you can see that even going to university to do “science” I was still able to change what I was doing quite a lot as I found out more about each subject. Dan and Christie have taken even more complicated routes into science, so it is always possible to change what you are doing.

    • Photo: Sian Thomas

      Sian Thomas answered on 20 Jun 2016:

      I decided I wanted to study science at University when I needed to make my choices (Year 12). But I actually enrolled in pharmacology and then realized that I wanted to do biochemistry part way through year 1 at Uni. Fortunately, it was easy to switch at the end of Year 1 without the need to do any extra years!

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