Question: What made you love biology in school?

Nadine Mirza answered on 14 Nov 2018:

I think it was simply because I understood it on the first go- it’s easy to love something when it’s not a struggle. For me, chemistry which I was initially very interested in eventually became so complex and difficult to understand that I grew to hate it. With physics I was indifferent because some of it I understood and some I didn’t. But with biology, maybe I enjoyed it because i was about us and our bodies and it explained what was going on within us- it immediately made me curious. Understanding our bodily systems, like the cardiovascular system, the nervous system, the endocrine system, it was like understanding the little parcels and packages that make us up. I could tackle each bit of information a bit at a time and because biology encourages all the drawing and diagrams it really helped to visualise all the information. It made it easier to learn when I wasn’t just memorising words but actually seeing the images and understanding what they meant.