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As I child I was always interested in science because of the fact that I am a test tube baby. I was interested in the science behind it and it made me love science classes. I always asked questions about test tube babies, but beyond that I enjoyed science classes while growing up because I had this interest due to my birth. If it were not for science I would not be alive. I entered the science fairs every year, though I never won or moved on to finals I always enjoyed the explorations. As soon as I got to junior high I was excited for the labs I would be doing, however it turned out to all be busy work. I read books and answered questions about it, but was never taught how it effected me. It was simply something I had to study so that I could go to eighth grade, but it didn't strike my attention.
I took the required science classes after that and quite often they were the same, nothing grabbed my attention until my junior year. I took oceanology and things began to get clearer about how it related to my life, and the things around me. My senior year I took The natural history of California mountains and deserts, and this was when I became interested in science again. We went on hikes through the types of land formations we had learned about. Through all this I have realized that we must learn science in a way that we can relate it to our lives, just as the article said. When it becomes something required in school, and no longer has that deep meaning it causes less people to become the scientists that we need in order to have the technologies we use every dya.