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I always wanted to be a scientist, I always thought I'd be a scientist, that was the narrative I was carrying around. I worked in a neuroscience lab as an undergraduate and then after, almost five years in total, but I realized I just wasn't good at science. I didn't have the discipline for it.

As a child, I remember my own intensive interest in biology, birds, other animals and flowers and was determined at an early age to become a scientist.

I just was mesmerized by all of this life everywhere I looked. And so I wanted to be a marine biologist.

I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist.

At the time I finished high school, I was determined to study biology, deeply convinced to eventually be a researcher.

I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.

I was one of those kids who wanted to do everything, I wanted to be a marine biologist, an actress, a writer, an environmentalist, an activist.

I wanted to be a meteorologist. I wanted to be a marine biologist.

I really wanted to be a doctor, until my freshman year of college when I realized that while I was good at chemistry and biology, I really wasn't feeling challenged by it.