Question: Were you always interested in biology or did you gain interest when you were at school?

Asked by maddygreen to Yagiz, Cindy, Katelin, Kate, Miranda on 11 Mar 2013. This question was also asked by ezio1999.

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  1. Photo: Miranda WeenMiranda Ween
    answered on 11 Mar 2013:

    I actually didn’t do biology in highschool as a separate subject at all! Just goes to show that what you do in highschool doesn’t always determine what job you will have. I was however, very interested in chemistry. My degree (Biomedical science) did not require biology to get in, and I did pure biology for a semester in first year uni and I hated it! All that drawing of plants, skeletons, and cutting up cockroaches, frogs, and mice. ick!

    My degree included a course called molecules, cells and biology too, and this I loved. It was more about how the body worked at a microscopic level. I then went on to do biochemistry (how proteins are made and what they do) microbiology and immunology and human physiology, which looked at humans from a systemic point of view, ie cardiovascular system, nervous system etc. I finally decided i liked cellular biology the best and went on to study reproductive cancers for 8 years before returning to my roots in microbiology.

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  2. Photo: Cindy LinCindy Lin
    answered on 11 Mar 2013:

    That is an excellent question maddygreen, thank you.

    I wasn’t always interested in biology, in fact when I was younger I didn’t like science very much at all. But when I was in high school I had a fantastic biology teacher. She was very passionate about science and showed me how fascinating it could be. She made everything interesting and taught it in such a way that had me hooked. It is thanks to her that I’m in research today and have such an interest in science and particularly the biological sciences.

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  3. Photo: Kate SkulteKate Skulte
    answered on 12 Mar 2013:

    I was always interested in genetics and DNA but not biology in a general sence. The only science I liked in high school was physics and I didn’t do any more than the minimum subjects I had to for science. I didn’t do science in year 11 or 12 and I didn’t do it in my first uni degree. It was only after thinking about how I found health and disease interesting and wanting to understand the nuts and bolts of disease that I realised I needed to study biology.

    Even though I am completeing my post graduate studies in molecular biology now and will be a biologist when I’m done, I still consider my main interest in disease and health. That is the bigger picture and what gives meaning to my work.

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  4. Photo: Katelin HaynesKatelin Haynes
    answered on 12 Mar 2013:

    I was interested in all the sciences when I was in school – biology, chemistry, physics, even maths. Biology was my favourite, but I still took other courses when I was in University, in chemistry and maths. I didn’t decide I wanted to work in medical research until my third year of university.

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  5. Photo: Yagiz "Biohacker" Alp AksoyYagiz "Biohacker" Alp Aksoy
    answered on 18 Mar 2013:

    I wasn’t interested in biology when I was at school. I was rather finding biology a bit boring. I started to gain interest in biology after I spent a summer holiday in a molecular biology lab where I found the opportunity to delve into fascinating world genes.

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