• Question: What was you biggest failure in your career of being a scientist

    Asked by anon-208655 to Tori, Titus, Stuart, Hannah, Gill, Alessandro on 7 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: Hannah Dalgleish

      Hannah Dalgleish answered on 7 Mar 2019:

      I failed a few exams at university, but I kept trying again and again until I passed them all. 🙂

    • Photo: Stuart Higgins

      Stuart Higgins answered on 8 Mar 2019:

      I’ve applied for lots of jobs and for money to do science, which I didn’t get. But I kept going and it worked out fine 🙂

    • Photo: Gill Harrison

      Gill Harrison answered on 8 Mar 2019:

      I failed one of my final exams. At the time it felt like the end of the world, but I had 6months of being a student, but having much more freedom to go to the areas I liked most at work as a radiographer. I learnt so much more, but without the full responsibility of being qualified and got to do so many things I might not have been able to do otherwise.

    • Photo: Tori Blakeman

      Tori Blakeman answered on 12 Mar 2019:

      I once failed an exam at uni that was on pharmacology (study of drugs) – but it was in first year so it didn’t really matter as I could re-take! Also it turned out that the exam was just too hard because 70% of people who took the exam failed…

      Every failure means growth!! If you don’t achieve, you still learn, so embrace your failures as they make you improve 🙂

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