• Question: What was your favourite subject at school?

    Asked by Issac Newton to Anna, George, Jodi, Rob, Stefan on 10 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Anna Scaife

      Anna Scaife answered on 10 Nov 2014:

      Maths! I’m not afraid to admit this now 🙂

      For some reason I always feel more satisfied having worked through a maths problem than anything else. Physics is great, but if you can’t express things mathematically then you never get a quantitative (i.e. an actual number) answer. It’s also where the surprises come from – even if you have a general idea of how something works from the physics, when you work through the maths you can find surprises in the details.

    • Photo: Stefan Lines

      Stefan Lines answered on 10 Nov 2014:

      Chemistry, but I think for all the wrong reasons (explosions, fire etc…)! When I look back now, I think it was also because it was the most hands-on science which also required knowledge (and taught you a bit about) Biology and Physics. So you learned a bit about everything.

      Oh, and it was the only subject at school that the teacher made us Ice-Cream using liquid Nitrogen 🙂

    • Photo: George Ryall

      George Ryall answered on 10 Nov 2014:

      I really like maths. It always ended up in an answer you could be certain was right or wrong and it felt like an accomplishment getting there. Even when doing my Physics degree, it was working through the mathematics of a problem I enjoyed much more than practical experiments or computer simulations.

    • Photo: Jodi Schneider

      Jodi Schneider answered on 10 Nov 2014:

      I liked French the most — because it was a very interactive, free-form class. Science is very self-driven and there are lots of ways to do it. If you like writing and like figuring things out, it’s a great field to be in.

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