Question: What did you have to study at Uni, to do the jobs you are doing??
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Mia Zeric.. cool, that sounds awesome and fun… its interesting how you studied different things to what you do today. i think i would like to study something along the lines of sports science and biomechanics and stuff like that… that would be fun and intersting because i love sport… thanks
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Hey jackbotts, I love sport too, and biomechanics has always fascinated me. But just like Mia said, you can end up doing way different things to what you would expect in science! There are some guys in Australia who are physicists and you know what they just published an article on? How a spinning cricket ball moves in the air and bounces off a pitch, and how different bowlers get it to spin different ways depending on the type of spin they bowl!
Check this out! https://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~cross/cricket.html
And this: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130704094920.htm
SCIENCE IS EVERYWHERE!
jackbotts
Jackbotts, what I studies at uni isn’t really all that relevant to what I’m doing today! That is the beauty of science, you can hop skip and jump and still fit in! 😀 I studies drug design and development (pharmacology) as well as industry applications of science (molecular biotechnology). I also studies Geoography also protein biochemistry. and now I work with bacteria and germs. so a bit different! What would you like to study when you get to our age?
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LOTS of different things! I did a biochemistry degree, so I did lots of biochemistry and molecular biology. I studied biology and chemistry in first year. I had to do a couple of genetics subjects, and I did microbiology and aquaculture too! Then in my final year it got really interesting, where I did things like biotechnology, pharmacology (looking at drugs and the body) and genetics projects.
Then once I finished that, I did an honours project that was a research project all of my own that went for a whole year like a fulltime job!
It might sounds like a lot, but my degree was three years, with 8 subjects a year, and the subjects you do in the second and third year depends on the ones you did in the first year! You get a lot of help choosing them so you can easily plan your degree.
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I studied biochemistry and immunology! So studied proteins and immune system
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Well…I am STILL at Uni as a student (as well as a Lecturer!)…can you believe? I did an Undergrad Degree in Science (majoring in Microbiology and immunology) at Melb Uni in 1995-1998, the I worked in the UK for 4 years as a junior scientist, THEN did a Masters in Research at York Uni (UK) for a year THEN a PhD project for 4 years (finished in 2009). I am currently required to do a teaching qualification, so that my students here at Deakin can rest assured I have been taught how to teach properly! I have a year to go to finish that one…so all up 4 degrees (with ceremonies and silly robe/hat combos) in total to be an Academic Scientist! And I still am waiting to become a permanent employee!
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Hi Jackbotts!
I studied chemistry, English, and more chemistry… Actually, the stuff I studied isn’t much like the work I’m doing now! You find little branches that take you on new paths very easily. : )
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