Pi is wrong

[JimC]

JimC, did you also take engineering or just science?

Just science, Dory, and mainly the biological sciences at that. Since then, I've picked up a fair bit more physics and maths, which is mainly what I teach these days...

[Dory]

Neat. You're at Ankur's alley then. What degree are you holding? Have you always been a science teacher or did you chance to work as a researcher?

[JimC]

Neat. You're at Ankur's alley then. What degree are you holding? Have you always been a science teacher or did you chance to work as a researcher?

Got a BSc (Hons) degree at Melbourne University, majoring in zoology. Spent a couple of years on research towards a PhD which went nowhere, gave up, did a Diploma of Education, and have been teaching science and maths in secondary school ever since...

Retiring in 4 or 5 years...

[Dory]

Zoology? How Dawkinesque. Why'd your PhD go nowhere I wonder?

[JimC]

Why'd your PhD go nowhere I wonder?

I wasn't dedicated enough...

My supervisor didn't help much...

The data was scanty, and the frogs were hard to find...

Take your pick!

I have no regrets, I moved on. My son, currently working as a field agent for the EPA, is keen to do his PhD on estuarine ecology sometime in the next year or 2. I hope he does; he can then have bragging rights over his old man!

[Dory]

Ahh Jim, where would the world be without people like you to inspire them to do science?.... keep it up.