Personal Reasons Captivating Me to Study a Geology
What lies beneath our feet at this very moment? How will the earth look 10 million years from now? How does the interior of the earthwork? How does this affect the surface we live on? These are the just some of the questions I contemplate to myself which captivate me to study Geology and find out more about our orated structure of the earth that lies beneath us. Deciding to study geology wasn’t a spontaneous decision that came during a trip to the coast nor did it come to me during a trip to the geology museum, but through constantly questioning the planet that we live on.
My curiosity about the planet and in science developed during my GCSE and A level, where I was exposed to various topics in physical geography such as Plate tectonics, tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanism, and coasts. I would speculate how geologists would then respond to these natural hazards and explore how these natural hazards have occurred and how it has changed the planet that we live on.
Furthermore A level geography has allowed my erudition of geographically skills to flourish such as statically analysis of data to drawing out conclusions, in addition enumerating my knowledge of natural hazard learning about various ways to respond to hazard, Such as recently the Indonesia earthquake that hit, which was followed up with a tsunami leading to mass devastation, because only the earthquake had triggered the early warning system but unfortunately not for the tsunami. However, many countries have responded showing sincerity and sending aid to the people affected. The A-level subjects that I have chosen to study allow me to enhance my skills such as Chemistry, which enables me to look at the earth’s formation which is made up by elements, as well as looking at how ultraviolet rays affect us and how our ozone layer can help stop ultraviolet rays; this has further developed my inquisitiveness guiding me to further research about the atmospheric layers.
Studying Religious Studies has enabled me to take a step back and look at the whole picture instead of at just focusing on one particular problem, therefore, enhancing my analytical and problem-solving skills and noticing that they are more than one way of looking at a problem, which is critical in any field of work. I also, undertook an Extended Project Qualification about a chosen subject which I decided would be about “How did dinosaurs go extinct?”
Exploring various areas in Palaeontology such as studying the atmosphere and the prehistoric earth and how this affected the animals and dinosaurs during the Cretaceous period. During summer, I attended summer school at Exeter University for geology and mining. During my week I learned a variety about geology and was exposed to elements that I had never heard of nor expected, which intrigued me further. Furthermore, experiencing lectures about the structure of the earth and it has changed throughout time, also seeing geology first hand in a different environment to my setting of a large city, my curiosity for geology grew even more. I also experienced independent living as well as what is expected of university students.
