• Question: did any of you not like science?

    Asked by to Edward, Ian, Mathew, Naomi, sakshisharda on 14 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Edward Hughes answered on 14 Jun 2014:

      I didn’t really like maths at school. I found it quite boring because you have to repeat things a lot! But luckily I realised that’s just because school maths is not like real life research.

      Most of the stuff I do everyday involved maths. But it’s actually very creative, because I have to invent new ways to calculate things. So rather than just repeating boring methods, I can try whatever I feel like!

      I wish school maths had been more interesting, and hopefully one day I’ll be able to convince the government that it shouldn’t be so repetitive!

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      Sakshi Sharda answered on 15 Jun 2014:

      I really liked science till 7th grade after which it got separated into physics, chemistry and biology. Biology was my favorite but used to struggle with physics and chemistry. I hated learning equations in chemistry and could never understand physics! I wish I had a good teacher for those subjects to make it interesting.

      But now since my research is interdisciplinary, I need a little knowledge of chemistry at times for which I have found some really interesting online tutorials 🙂

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      Naomi Osborne answered on 15 Jun 2014:

      Biology was my favourite subject but I didn’t really like chemistry or physics. Even though I didn’t enjoy chemistry, I studied it at A-level and glad I did as it helped when I went to University to do Biology.

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      Ian Stephenson answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      I loved maths and physics.
      Chemistry I quite liked, but Biology I found really boring.

      I’d have hated it if I’d had to do GCSE combined science – fortunately back when I did it, I was allowed to just do Physics and Chemistry, and drop Biology.

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