• Question: What was your favourite subject at school and has it changed over time?

    Asked by anon-188261 to Pizza Ka Yee, Paul, Nadine, Alex on 15 Nov 2018. This question was also asked by anon-188268.
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      Alex Reid answered on 15 Nov 2018: last edited 15 Nov 2018 3:56 pm

      Hi Ava (and Chicken McFlurry), thank you for your question. I have always loved science, but my favorite topics at school were actually graphic design and history, both of which I did at A-level. Graphic design let me create really cool things (at least to me). My favorite project was redesigning an abandoned fire station in my village and turning it into a youth hostel. History is also an amazing topic, and in particular I like to draw from it all of the many mistakes humans have made in the past. Making mistakes is part of the human condition, but learning from them is more of a choice. I like the idea of learning things and collectively becoming better people. In other words we should not let certain things in history repeat themselves! This might be a real shocker coming from a psychologist, but my favorite topic at the moment is psychology! It is such a broad area, and although I mainly look at sleep and memory, I find pretty much all of it fascinating. While it is good to have favorites, there is also something to be said from taking the best things about all the things you like. It is part of being intellectually curious and as you go through life I encourage you to do this. I personally try to maintain a pretty broad area of interests and I don’t usually drop things because I am ‘done’ with them. In other words I still love history and graphic design!

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      Paul Matusz answered on 15 Nov 2018:

      Hi 🙂

      As I say in my profile, throughout school I have always liked arts and history of arts, but at the same time I have really liked chemistry the moment I was introduced to it. Never liked other STEM subjects – but look at me, working as a neuroscientist and using mathematics to do complex analyses of my data! I have also liked history when I was younger, but especially those parts that touched on the society and how it changed, and how science emerged during Renaissance and then Enlightenment, and how philosophy changed across centuries.

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      Nadine Mirza answered on 16 Nov 2018:

      Thanks for the question guys- the answer is it has absolutely changed, rapidly and all over the place, across my time at school.
      As a child the defacto favourite subject was art- I especially loved to sketch (my anime and manga drawing phase was long and tedious). As I got older, so around late middle school, it was both English and Art. Once I entered high school I had to choose between science subjects and art subjects and I went with the sciences. So English and Biology were the new faves right up until the A Level stage when….basically the boyfriend looking back meme where the new girl is Psychology and I’m the scandalous boyfriend.

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