• Question: Did you like school? Why?

    Asked by wake137hub to Charlie on 29 Sep 2021.
    • Photo: Charlie Young

      Charlie Young answered on 29 Sep 2021:

      I didn’t really enjoy school, partly because my parents always thought i should be trying harder and I was a very average student (I eventually got 10 GCSEs, 1x B and all the rest were Cs).

      Make sure your parents encourage you for sure, but tell them from me if they don’t celebrate with you when you suceed, that’s just plain not fair!

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  • Photo: Quentin

    Quentin commented on :

    I did not like school and eventually that showed up in my grades and behavior. This was mainly caused by the bunch of courses which I was personally not interested in. The passion started at the University. I went from last in class at school to first in class at the University, just because all the courses just seemed so interested and perfectly aligned with what I wanted to learn more about.

    Make sure you get your basics at school, it is going to make your university experience more enjoyable. For the rest do what is necessary to quickly get out and move to studies you can chose and tailor to your interests.

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    Lucia commented on :

    I actually did like school! I had very good friends in my class and I didn’t get to see them during the holidays so that was a plus.

    That doesn’t mean that I always excelled at everything (for instance, I found PE and when I was older Philosophy a bit frustrating) but I was overall very happy with it.

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    Daniel commented on :

    I really enjoyed school as a child because I enjoyed some of the sports clubs you could go to and playing with mates. Once I got to GCSE’s it was better since I could choose what I enjoyed to spend more time learning about. I hated coursework as I felt like I could always do something better but exams were fine as they were only at certain points of the year and once you’ve done the exam it’s over. Although, since studying my degree I’ve noticed group-based project work is the best form of assessment as you will mostly always be working in a team as someone working in the space industry!

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    Dan commented on :

    I liked school and my favourite subjects were definitely the ones where I had the most inspiring teachers. My English teacher (Ms Gupta) was a fantastic example of this. She helped me to enjoy English (even Shakespeare!) by making it exciting and relevant to the modern world.

    I only studied more technical subjects much later in life and so I would encourage you to study what you’re interested in as you’ll almost certainly be able to work in the space sector!