What influenced you in your interest with the math and sciences?

what influenced you in your interest with the math and sciences?

did you go into your program due to sheer interest, or was it for the job prospects? which is more important and why?

Went to some contest in chemistry during middle school and that is what triggered my interest in science in general; Afterwards during highschool got into a few maths contest and realized that it was the thing I enjoyed the most

I wish I had that intuition.

I literally woke up one night around 2am and decided to download a book on circuitry

and I just never stopped learning

Sheer interest. That and because I love that math is logical -- ok usually.

Steins;GAPE

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I hate to admit it, but fucking Steins; Gate, a fucking anime, got me into science. I am now a chemical engineering major at Stanford. Because of a fucking chinese cartoon.

That is fucking sad.

I was always good at physics so it was obvious I was going to end up study a sciecen, probably physics. Then because I wanted to make videogames with my friends I started learning programming and I became pretty good at it, by this point I was sure I was going to study Computer Science. Then when the time to enroll into university came I considered that I was already too good at CS to waste time in a program that would assume I did not know how to program, analyze algorithms, create and use data structures, etc. so I had to decide for something else and around that time writing proofs was catching my attention pretty hard.

Now I am in mathematics. I consider this to be correct because it is the most general of fields that I can apply everywhere so I will never regret studying math if in life two years I find a different "scientific passion" because studying math will help with it.

I always had an interest in learning. I have always been interested in science. My parents were really encouraging and pushed me (hard) to do well in school.

I attended a small a math and science high school on a college campus (later ranked top 25 nationally). I graduated with my associates, and went to a bigger university to finish my bachelors. Now I'm starting my PhD in neuroscience soon.

Lifelong struggle with counting obsessions made math the only choice.

My dad mainly, but I suppose I have always been passionate about the sciences. He was a neurological researcher when I was very young, but has spent the majority of my life practicing as an MD. He's very passionate about science and we always had a lot of fun together running our own "experiments" (stuff like making our own solid fuel rockets, electrolysis rigs, etc.). I hated high school and was a classic "not dumb just lazy" faggot that this board attracts, but did well enough to get into a good program for what I was interested in, and it's grown exponentially ever since.

It's honestly a burden to be genuinely intrigued by what you're studying. I've got one year of college left and have not even begun to think about what I want to do next. I'm too wrapped up in enjoying my coursework and research, I don't want it to end desu. Fuck responsibility.

I was always interested in science, but I decided to study biochemistry because of Dune (because the Tleilaxu are really cool).

Honestly, Steins;Gate is a pretty good show to want to get into science actually.

Jesus Christ cry more faggot

Both and life is meaningless by working and dating only. I seen people in their 70's or older depressed af because their whole lives were based on those two things until their partners died and they can't work anymore.

I remember when in grade school, around the fourth grade, I read about Newton and his Three Laws of Motion in my little textbook. It was astounding to discover how one man only three to four hundred years prior, monumentally changed the progress of human kind. I thought to myself, if I was born earlier, I could've figured it all out. It took a while longer before I was truly humbled by the collective knowledge discovered before I was born. But from then on, I thought I could also change the world just a little bit by learning and discovering more about the universe.

6th grade science olympiad: Anatomy and physiology

Ever since, I have the hardest boner for medicine and human biology/medicine. Am in Med school at John Hopkins.

Don't let anyone say you can't do something guys. I came from a literally-what school and now I am somewhere I couldn't have dreamt of 5 years ago

Also, why isn't medicine discussed on this board as much as it used to be?

Dad kicked me out when I was 14, he's an ''engineer'' who never went to high school, thus he cannot advance any further in the company he's in
At a start it was just to get back at my dad and throw my degree at his face
Pretty shallow, but yeah

I do computer Engineering for pure interest. I feel like I'm the only one who isn't in it for the money and making parents proud. Cyberpunk was really big when I was growing up. It made people who knew programming and electronics look like ninja wizards, so I taught myself those skills from a young age. That got me really far in the Canadian Computing Competition and National Science fair in highschool which meant scholarship and any university I wanted.

Uh... Dexter's Laboratory.
No, really.

The $300k starting pay

Bill Nye and pic related
I wanted to be an inventor even after I was told it wasn't actually a job, up until I was introduced to programming

I was heavy into drugs during my teens, came from a shit country. Finally did some 8gr of mushrooms, got my mind blown, was like "what the fuck am I doing on this planet" and decided I'd better find out if anyone knows. Thus, my journey that has led me now to be a 2nd year bach in physics started. Had a lot of catching up to do due to literally not studying in hs and doing dumb shit instead, but now that it has all settled I'm really thankful for this choice. God fucking damn it, I'd have been somewhere in a ditch otherwise.

I was one of the special kids who would read everything and deliberately try and break things to see if I could put it back together. Then puberty destroyed the old me and left the big brain.

Took chemistry.

You'd think Xenogears would lead you to suicide instead.

Read about the twin paradox on Wikipedia or wherever, not sure what prompted this. I didn't really understand it.
So I bought Einstein's popular book on SR and GR and my mind was blown.
Reading through wiki a bit more, I gathered that GR and Quantum Mechanics are basically the pillars of modern physics, and so I got another book on QM, "In search of Schrödinger's cat" by John Gribbin (yeah, all pop sci so far, I know).
When I read about "electron waves" my Newtonian world was completely destroyed, and I decided there was no way to turn back. Popsci wasn't enough and that's when I decided to study physics.

Holy fuck, OP, why do you want to know this bullshit?

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