I preferred to use mathematics in some practical fashion and thought that meteorology sounded promising.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've always been interested in using mathematics to make the world work better.
Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.
I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.
I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.
I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account.
I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.
I was particularly good at math and science.
I was a mathematics major and really into math.
I was very fascinated with meteorology at a young age. I lived on the Gulf Coast and hurricanes blew through there. That is the class I failed in college: meteorology.
I was never strong at maths, but I eventually got onto a university physics/astronomy course, and that led on to my Ph.D. and eventual employment.