From Louis Warren:
"Well, I'm going to ask you the most common question I get about my love for Video Editing...what turned you on to the science of space?"
July 20, 2010
I can actually remember the specific moment very distinctly, I was in the sixth grade, in the Ingenuity Project at Robert Poole Middle School, the year was 1999-2000. Our science teacher was named Mr. Fireside and he began a lesson about the Solar System. I remember being so intrigued and fascinated since this was the first real learning experience I had about space, these topics were never encouraged at home and I didn't encounter them much at school beforehand. To this day, I can remember parts of his lesson word for word, especially as he moved from talking about the planets to the Big Bang. One thing I can recall making this experience so special is that this was the first time I had seen a DVD used in the classroom, and this was around the time I began questioning religion and creation and the big bang just really turned me on to QUESTION EVERYTHING. I went to high school at Baltimore Polytechnic Institute where I studied Engineering. I loved Engineering, but when we got into Physics, I got the feeling all over again when I started learning about space. I joined the Physics club, competed in the Physics Olympics at the University of Maryland and took AP Physics my senior year.
Aside from schooling, I have always asked questions about our existence. At four years old, I recall wondering if everything was someone's thoughts or dreams or if perhaps we were in some way their memories as they flipped through a photo album. This was because at the time I would have frequent recurring dreams and I thought that maybe I was just someones recurring dream. I have always had a keen sense of curiosity, I suppose. I didn't really start studying Astrophysics until last year, up until then I was taking Psychology because I didn't feel like I was smart enough. I had a period of time where I just KNEW that Psychology was selling myself short so I took a year off of school to figure it out. During this time I became so engulfed in books and documentaries and programs like The Universe that I decided to make the switch. To answer your question, it started at a fairly young age but the confidence to actually pursue the space sciences is fairly recent.
July 20, 2010
I can actually remember the specific moment very distinctly, I was in the sixth grade, in the Ingenuity Project at Robert Poole Middle School, the year was 1999-2000. Our science teacher was named Mr. Fireside and he began a lesson about the Solar System. I remember being so intrigued and fascinated since this was the first real learning experience I had about space, these topics were never encouraged at home and I didn't encounter them much at school beforehand. To this day, I can remember parts of his lesson word for word, especially as he moved from talking about the planets to the Big Bang. One thing I can recall making this experience so special is that this was the first time I had seen a DVD used in the classroom, and this was around the time I began questioning religion and creation and the big bang just really turned me on to QUESTION EVERYTHING. I went to high school at Baltimore Polytechnic Institute where I studied Engineering. I loved Engineering, but when we got into Physics, I got the feeling all over again when I started learning about space. I joined the Physics club, competed in the Physics Olympics at the University of Maryland and took AP Physics my senior year.
Aside from schooling, I have always asked questions about our existence. At four years old, I recall wondering if everything was someone's thoughts or dreams or if perhaps we were in some way their memories as they flipped through a photo album. This was because at the time I would have frequent recurring dreams and I thought that maybe I was just someones recurring dream. I have always had a keen sense of curiosity, I suppose. I didn't really start studying Astrophysics until last year, up until then I was taking Psychology because I didn't feel like I was smart enough. I had a period of time where I just KNEW that Psychology was selling myself short so I took a year off of school to figure it out. During this time I became so engulfed in books and documentaries and programs like The Universe that I decided to make the switch. To answer your question, it started at a fairly young age but the confidence to actually pursue the space sciences is fairly recent.
University of Maryland, Physics Olympics, 2005.
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