/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.3088468]

Times you realized that you wanted to be a scientist

>in second grade
>go to auditorium to see guest speaker
>it's a guy with a lab coat and crazy green hair.
>asks for volunteer
>doesn't pick me but whatever
>takes out dixie cup
>asks kid to step on it
>dixie cup crushes under boy's weight
>unveils 30 dixie cups on the floor next to him
>places large plastic disk about the size of a manhole cover on top of dixie cups.
>asks kid to step on disk
>dixie cups uncrushed
>this completely BLOWS MY 2ND GRADE MIND.

[Anonymous No.3088477]

That guy wasn't a scientist, he was a magician.

[Anonymous No.3088479]

>>3088477
An illusionist.

[Anonymous No.3088492]

>>3088479
I believe the correct term is pedophile

[Anonymous No.3088495]

>>3088479

child molester.

[Anonymous No.3088501]

>>3088495

rapist.

[Anonymous No.3088510]

>>3088501

Champion.

[Anonymous No.3088515]

pure motherfuckin' magic!

[Anonymous No.3088526]

I met a child molester once. She asked me if she could give my son a blowjob and I was like, "Go for it"

[Anonymous No.3088528]

>>3088510
Magnets

[Anonymous No.3088530]

>>3088468
Most child molesters don't usually go for such elaborate extremes, but whatever floats your boat OP. Follow your dreams.

[Anonymous No.3088540]

must have been friday

[Anonymous No.3088555]

>>3088526
Some sex offender ran from across the street and down 5 houses to come talk to me once. We'd never met before he came sprinting over to me.
I didn't get raped!

[Anonymous No.3088564]

>6 years old
>Jurrasic Park comes out
>I WANT TO BE A PALEONTOLOGIST!!!
>fast forward, I'm in school for invertebrate paleontology
>invertebrate
>close enough

[Anonymous No.3088570]

>>3088564

What career options are you looking at?

Do you enjoy biology?

How are you enjoying your field and its options?

[Anonymous No.3088588]

>Grade 10
>Went to a political conference thing for students
>everyone was retarded
>immediately applied for a student research program when I came back home

never looked back

[Anonymous No.3088612]

>>3088570
I like geology/earth science more, which is why invert is so useful for me. I really like foraminifera and Quaternary science, which is great for reconstructing paleoclimates (which is what I'm interested in), but chances are I'll end up selling my soul to an oil company using fossils as oil indicators :-/

[Anonymous No.3088619]

>>3088611
i dawwed, thats cute

[Anonymous No.3088630]

>Be 5 years old
>Facinated by insects
>Read as many scientific books on them as I can
>Memorize tons of Genus/species
>Be in college
>Major in chemistry
>About to start my senior year/to late to change to biology
notwhatiexpected.jpeg

I do really like chemistry though. I have a pet tarantula (G.rosea) and plan to acquire more.

[Anonymous No.3088644]

this is the only good /sci/ thread i've seen in months

[Anonymous No.3088649]

>>3088630

how exactly is it too late? couldn't you do an extra couple years and go for biology or a double major?

[Anonymous No.3088674]

>be 6 years old
>see the movie aliens
>I MUST BECOME A SCIENTIST TO MORE CLOSELY STUDY THESE CREATURES

seriously though it scarred my mind forever, the thought of hostile aliens that is.

[Anonymous No.3088687]

>>3088649
Well I get four years of being able to live at my parents as long as I'm in college for free. After that I have to move out.

I don't really feel like working/and going to school at this point in my life. I will probably pursue it later in life but at this point I'll probably just get my M.S. or PhD in chemistry.

[Anonymous No.3088698]

>>3088674

Was it the thought of hostile aliens that scared you or the thought of RAPE?

[Anonymous No.3088713]

>didn't feel like doing math anymore
>go into political science
>wtf is this bullshit
>gtfo of humanities
>now love math

[Anonymous No.3088762]

>>3088612

That is kind of sad in a way, the concept of being used for your knowledge in that way.

[Anonymous No.3088823]

When I learned why the sky is blue. I study optics mostly.

[Anonymous No.3088840]

>11 or so years old
>chemistry demonstration at the science centre field trip
>the guy has an empty white cup and a cup with water
>asks someone to come up to the front of the room.
>he pours the water into the white cup
>he turns the white cup upside down, over the kids head
>no water comes out
>are you a wizard
>I want to understand

[Anonymous No.3088859]

>grade 4
>go into bathroom all day and mix around with products
>Mix Listerine and toothpaste
>Think I made the worlds next greatest invention by being super clean

[Anonymous No.3088863]

>4th out of 5 undergraduate physics courses
>course covers EM and optics
>first day of discussion of synthesis of Maxwell's equations
>Professor busts out a 10' (inb4 metric) long metal tube
>climbs up a ladder and drops a permanent magnet down tube
>casually climbs down and catches the magnet as it exits bottom of tube
>eddy currents FTW

>MFW

[Anonymous No.3088871]

>>3088859


>nigga I made potions in my sink LIKE A BOSS from age 5 to age 8.

[Anonymous No.3088906]

>>3088871
I know that feel bro

[Anonymous No.3088911]

>MFW I have no definitive moment of scientific inspiration
>But I wanted to become a scientist, or at the very least, go about my life very scientifically, because of my grandfather, a very famous Alaskan geologist and glaciologist who is incredibly badass
>But he has sore joins and a fused ankle and has trouble walking now
>I take care of him when I can because the guy is a fucking hero

[Anonymous No.3088922]

>>3088698
it was mostly seeing that guy being cut in half and vomiting white shit, the rape part is simply evolution at work.

[Anonymous No.3088954]

>Be in freshmen chem
>predict the outcome of a chemical reaction to 4 decimal places
>realize the monumentally small chances of doing so randomly
>Just went through parental divorce, lost all faith in mankind
>I now can into science
>Now, I tutor AP bio and chem, and Im going to a decent university getting a biochem degree (its like being a doctor, without all the fucking life-or-death/you-dishonor-teh-famirry competition)

>Cause rediter
so thats what you call a true moment of enlightenment that changes your life forever?

[Anonymous No.3089017]

>Freshmen year in high school
>Humanities, English, Foreign language classes all boring as fuck
>Geometry really interesting, I'm doing well
>Physics possibly my favorite class ever at this point, also excelling in this class
My 9th grade physics teacher evoked in me a lifelong love for the sciences (I know it sounds cheesy). To this day I still love physics, probably my favorite of the sciences.

[Anonymous No.3089041]

>>3089017

I know that feel bro.

[Anonymous No.3089057]

>4th grade
>Teacher and I talking during recess
>He mentions gravity is the curvature of spacetime
>Go home, research relativity
>mfw
Didn't understand most of it, but I still found it absolutely beautiful. It was at that moment that I decided to become a physicist.

[Anonymous No.3089120]

>>3088859

>one day fucking around with chemicals in the bathroom
>mix bleach with cleaner that contains ammonia
>create mustard gas
>choke on bodily fluids

[Anonymous No.3089163]

>5 years-old
>read one of those astronomy picture books
>have a carl sagan moment and realize how minuscule we are in the universe
>hhhhhhhooooooooooooooolllllllllllyyyyy ssssssshhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiitttttttt

[Anonymous No.3089352]

>be fourteen
>smart friend always on about something awfully interesting
>quantum computing, theoretical physics, artificial intelligence
>computer crashes, he installs linux for me and shows me how to use it
>we would work out together and discuss dietetics, nutrition, kinesiology, and so on
>he was genuinely interested in helping me with math homework

We subsequently began too share many interests, and here I am today studying computer science.

[Anonymous No.3089364]

>>3089352
so he was gay and he banged you or?

[Anonymous No.3089372]

>>3089352
you forgot the part when you sucked each other off for one entire summer

[Anonymous No.3089376]

>>3089364
>>3089372
hive mind

[Anonymous No.3089378]

>5 yrs old
>motherfucking Star Trek : TOS
not all that glamorous i suppose...

[Anonymous No.3089394]

>10
>watch Gattaca
>holy fuck, that where we're headed
>degree in Genetics

[Anonymous No.3089408]

>>3089364

It was the ultimate bromance. Together we would also direct short films, write fiction, monitor stock exchange, and go for long sweaty hikes.

[Anonymous No.3089412]

>second grade
>fascinated by the stars and space
>want to be an astronomer
>in college
>art college
>mfw i still want to be an astronomer

[Anonymous No.3089418]

>>3089394
that movie was terrible

[Anonymous No.3089431]

>>3089418
suck ma dick, luddite

[Anonymous No.3089440]

>>3089431
>implying i'm a luddite
fuck off, the plot was weak as fuck and the girl was such an ugly broad

[Anonymous No.3089451]

>>3089440

I like Uma Thurman, but I am probably weird.

I thought the plot was okay, nothing spectacular.

[Anonymous No.3089463]

>>3089440
>implying the plot was the focus of the movie

[Anonymous No.3089475]

>be 6
>go into father's workshop, computer components everywhere
>he's using tiny screwdrivers on a laptop
>teaches me everything he's doing
>takes some old parts and helps me build a shitty desktop
>run Windows 95 and play games he helped me write in QBASIC
>want to be a computer guy ever since
>find out that it's actually really boring

[Anonymous No.3089494]

>>3089463
>>3089463
>implying plot doesn't make the movie and entirely convey the focus
HURF DURF GENETICS DERP ARTIFICIAL GROWING AND CUSTOMIZED BABBY HURRR CONSEQUENCES NEVAR BE THE SAME

movie sucked, end of story. fuck off

[Anonymous No.3089551]

>i like being right
>objective truth is the least wrong i can be(inb4 shitstorm)
>physics seems to be the leader
>mfw gravity (seems cool but it's been kind of static for a number of years) vs particle physics (overcrowded and kind of boring with the particle zoo and the limits on tech)
>MATH!
>any job i want
>300k starting

[Anonymous No.3089599]

I've never really had a definitive moment. As long as I can remember I've been interested in science. Started with being obsessed with dinosaurs, then moved onto animals in general and a love of biology. 10th grade kinematics was confusing to me, so initially I didn't like physics, and balancing chemical equations seemed tedious and boring so I didn't like chemistry either. As I went through 11th and 12th grade though, biology became (at least to me) more about memorization than predicting stuff (I can't really explain mean well, but hopefully you get it). Physics slowly became my favourite subject, along with maths.

[Anonymous No.3089847]

>>3089475
>getting a job in august as a programmer
I find your comment offensive, uncalled for, and mildly true.

[Fr 87 No.3089891]

>Be 5
>Brother buys me an estes rocket
>FUCK FUCK FUCK THIS THING IS AWESOME
>Build my own in third grade (engine and all)
>Submit it to the science fair
>be paraded around as a genius and known for the rest of elementary school as the kid who built his own fucking rocket.
>Aerospace engineering motherfucker.

[Anonymous No.3089907]

>Read this thread for a bit
>get to this post
>>3088644
>wtf??
>forgot I switched from /v/

[Nuka-Cola !dbLFTRZqOI No.3089930]

>like, 4 years old
>magic school bus + bill nye every god damn day
>utterly fascinated by every field there it
>describe the function of blood cells to my preschool class after the teacher holds up a red ball and asks "what's this, kids?"
>presentation on the comet hail bop to the 4th grade class when i was in 2nd grade, diverted into a Q&A about black holes and cosmology
>do a science fair project in 6th grade on fusion power and fusion weapons. win first place at the school, third place at regionals. I did all of my own work for it

looking back, i think i'd gotten proportionally dumber. feels bad

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3089938]

>Year 6 science
>teacher was a cool guy, wheels in some machine that makes hydrogen and oxygen bubbles
>makes a fair bit of them, they all explode and it is colossally loud
>he shows us it formed some water because that is what water was made out of
>SHUTUPANDTAKEMYMONEY.jpg

[Anonymous No.3089939]

>>3089930
Holy shit
Are you me?

[Anonymous No.3089956]

>7 years old
>Parents buy me a magnet kit
>Place two magnets in a test tube, like poles facing each other
>Magnets defy gravity
>I BROKE THE WORLD I MUST INVESTIGATE

Now at uni for math undergrad

[Nuka-Cola !dbLFTRZqOI No.3089960]

>>3089939
i....hope not...
why, did you have an eerily similar childhood?

[Fr 87 No.3089961]

>>3089956

Shit yeah.
I built a crappy railgun with a magnet kit that my parents bought me one year for christmas.

[Anonymous No.3089963]

>>3089938
>hydrogen explosions
HAHAH holy shit. did it shake the ceiling tiles down? that shit is LOUD

it's great when you bubble the hydrogen up through a bubble machine, and this have little bubbles of pure hydrogen floating around.

[Anonymous No.3089967]

>>3088468
Math edition.
Like most kids, I hated math in most of high school, SOHCAHTOA and a^2 + b^2 = c^2 weren't doing much for me.
The exact moment was I was in 8th grade, when we were in Geometry, and the teacher told us to attempt to derive the formulas of various shapes.
I was hammering through them, got up to cones and cylinders while the other noobs were trying to wrap their heads around the 1/2(a + b)h. Something about the logic and rationality of it interested me, this developed even more when our class started Polynomials and Functions.

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3089973]

>>3089963
H+O explosions seem to be even louder. It did shake the windows.

[Anonymous No.3089978]

>>3089961
That shit was cash. And to believe I'd pretend to be awesome and make business cards on my parent's computer when I was young of me being a manager of a Chinese Restaurant.

I'm not even Asian, goddammit.

[Anonymous No.3089988]

>>3089938
In chemistry, we had to do a chemistry project and explain the reaction. Some mates and I made a fuck-ton of hydrogen balloons, wet a string connecting them with kero. We lit the string and let them fly while a crowd gathered. Fucking insane reaction from the cunts watching it, really loud pop, and we got an A on our project.

[Anonymous No.3089999]

>middle school
>read books on high voltage experiments and tesla coils
>went to junkyard to get some ignition coils
>experimented for a while
>later connected together a light dimmer, a lot of capacitors, hv diodes, huge coil of telephone wire on oatmeal box, some thick wire, and a aluminum foil donut
>6" inch sparks and brilliant corona

[Fr 87 No.3090001]

>>3089978

I tried to start a trading card business and made tons of them and business cards.... I was moderately successful.

[Anonymous No.3090011]

Trajectory:
>18 yrs old, smart "I'll be a doctor"
>1st year biochem, clueless, fail calc, GPA 3.3
>2nd year, in love, fuck a lot, GPA 3.3
>3rd year, better get serious about skool, GPA 3.3
>4th year, popular, drunk all the time, GPA 3.3
>not going to med school
>spend 3 years to get MSc studying p53 tumor suppressor
>not for me
>sell everything and take flight to Singapore (canadafag)
>in one day, get job as mid-level manager of a medical lab. righteous!
>singapore boring. spend next 12 years in Korea as English teacher
>actually make most of my money editing patent translations in all scientific fields
>back to canada, get MBA
>back to Korea, start my own company writing annual reports. specialize in biopharm and banking
>back in canada now. gonna open my own bakery next month
>learned how to bake wathcing Utube videos
>good life. happy as shit

[Anonymous No.3090014]

> be 11
> watch space shuttle launch
> wants to be astronaut
> fast forward to now, graduated with a bsc in astrophysics and a masters in planetary science
> shuttle program discontinued
> dreams crushed
> works at KSC gift shop

[Anonymous No.3090063]

>>3090011
How was teaching english in Korea? I've recently been thinking about doing this.

[Anonymous No.3090100]

>>3090063
utterly fantastic, but i'm not gonna summarize 12 years here. /trv/ has regular threads on it. i've participated in some that have lasted for days - trv's a slow board. facebook also has several korea-related groups. go for it!

[Nuka-Cola !dbLFTRZqOI No.3090110]

>>3090014
hop on the train for the next space craft program. or land a position at spacex or something

[Anonymous No.3090189]

>be a 8yr old kid, told i have aspergers and would make a good engineer.
>that is all

[Anonymous No.3090193]

>>3090189
Do you enjoy butt sex as well?

[Anonymous No.3090197]

>>3090189

What, was you shrink a pedophile or something?
That's fucking disgusting.

[make this a rage comic No.3090208]

Do it!

[Anonymous No.3090211]

>>3090014

Same story here except I haven't graduated yet and I'm doing AE/Astro...

SpaceX here I come. That or MIT for a P.hD

[Anonymous No.3090284]

>>3090193
its ok i guess, i prefer normal sex though
>>3090197
i'm pretty sure she wasn't, i cant remember to well

[Anonymous No.3090347]

You guys were young when you found out. I had a hunch as a high school freshman when I started reading books on electronics and built a computer. But I didn't really know until I got to college and math and science were the only things that seemed to present an interesting challenge.

[Anonymous No.3090389]

>>3089408
so fucking jelly

[Anonymous No.3090397]

>take jello powder
>pile it onto a plate
>take eyedropper full of water
>put drop of water on top of jello powder
>jello powder + water drop = INSTANT GUMMY
>holy fucking shit, this is science?!

[EK FAN CLUB No.3090398]

>>3090011
You went through all that to become a baker? Well I hope you make apple pies.

[Anonymous No.3090405]

>>3090014

Where are you studying bro?

[Anonymous No.3090440]

>final year of school
>A's in maths and physics
>realise it was my destiny to become a physician