What sparked my interest in science? | by S.A.Arjun | Oct, 2025

So to give you a background, before the Covid 19 pandemic, I had little to no interest in science and math. It was just a bunch of symbols and random numbers. I always wondered why we even need these stupid scribbles in the first place; we are good enough without them. Before the pandemic I was interested in sports then after the lockdown it was natural for me to move on to gaming. One day at 9th grade, this time around the mid of the academic year real life schools reopened, so I was just copying random stuff written on the board and didn’t think much of it. To give you context of my lack of info I had on studies, I didn’t know what atoms or elements was. So, yea one fine day at my house I was just laying on my bed scrolling through YouTube home page, I was dead bored didn’t know what to do. My bed was almost everyday filled with stupid papers and objects. My mom came inside my room and gave my a empty dairy and said my grandpa had given this for me. My mom then said to me to use the dairy in a very useful way. So, after receiving the dairy I felt a little obliged to do something productive with my dairy. So, I searched my bed for some class notes, and to none of my surprise there was one of my chemistry notes. It said ‘electronic configuration’ as the title. I wondered if it was about some electronic devices so I searched up the term on google and was instantly taken a back from all the information that…