Why pursue stem?
The 3 videos below we believe are useful guides to realising the potential of studying and working in STEM.
"In whatever you choose to do, do it because it's hard, not because it's easy. Math and physics and astrophysics are hard. For every hard thing you accomplish, fewer other people are out there doing the same thing as you. That's what doing something hard means. And in the limit of this, everyone beats a path to your door because you're the only one around who understands the impossible concept or who solves the unsolvable problem"-
Neil Degrasse Tyson
You may be on the fence to pursue the study of STEM for myriad of reasons. Here may be a few. You've been told its too hard? You don't think you're that good that maths? You kind of prefer art and humanities subjects? As the quote above shows, there's nothing wrong with a challenge, the challenge is what makes you unique and stand out from your peers. Also there's a stigma around sciences and maths as if it's some God given gift only imposed to a few of us at birth so when anyone is good at it, we all turn into that Maybelline advert and assume that they're born with it. THIS IS A LIE.Anyone can do maths or science, all it takes is practise, hard work and determination. Magical predetermined powers are simply irrelevant in this equation, pun very much intended.
How about if you prefer more creative subjects? First of all never let anyone tell you arts subjects are of no use. As Robin Williams said in the Dead Poet's Society:' And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for'.Of course we are here to encourage you to pursue STEM, and we think that STEM is great leeway into arts and humanities subjects and overall it makes you a more well rounded person since you really get the best of both worlds. Studying chemistry doesn't mean you can longer be an artist, in fact, it may help you. Since you'll now look at the colours from a different perspective, you'll know about the colours on an atomic level, who knows the possibilities that could open up! A new colour possibly? We see STEM as a doorway, it's up to you what you do once you've entered.