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Which is still a ton more than most of us. I hope you're not complaining about that small amount of money you're making.
I agree, English is such a varying syntax over time I found it to be a waste to study.
Funny how people respect Engineers and Physicists soo much, but they care less for paying them soo much more.
I have 2 doctorates in Physics and Engineering and I only make about what a lower tier M.D. just out of residency makes.
Which is still a ton more than most of us. I hope you're not complaining about that small amount of money you're making.
I was done with those classes my first year of college. It was easy. I also tried aerospace engineering out for a while, got me bored.
Something may be easy for one person but it is difficult for the other.
I hate English, and Art...essentially anything that doesn't have rigid form. I also suck big time at it. So if someone tells me those things are difficult, i usually agree. Unless it's grade school level.
There is nothing engineers, physicists or biochemists like better than having a C in English bring their GPA down.
Neither has any application for Spurstalk.
I think you made the right choice imho. Good luck with the math.
Biochemistry is disgusting. I specialized in genetics and pharmacology which were pretty challenging in of itself (especially genetics), but biochem destroyedme.
I took a biochem course in my senior year (was also crosslisted to graduate students) thinking it wouldn't be so bad since I had taken a biochem course in 2nd year...LOL. A guy I knew dropped out after the second week. I told myself 'it's not THAT bad'....until the midterm. I walked out of the midterm and went straight to my registrar's office to drop the course with no refund, tbh.
Also sets me up for work in collections management, or as a special collections librarian, and on and on. Which, in this economy still amounts to not much of anything, because in ins utions that have art collections it's usually the art librarian positions that get cut first for budgetary reasons (unless you're talking about huge museums, but those aren't entry level possibilities), but ut's not as if I'm not working toward a particular skill set that has practical applications.
being a professor, though. I'd sooner go back to a thankless clerical job than staying in academia forever.
Most of the people I know who've abandoned Art History majors have done so because of the above reasons. They pick it as a major because they like the general ed level survey classes only to discover after the first couple of semesters that they're reading psychoanalytic theory, Foucault, complex feminist analysis, and the like far more than they are looking at paintings. It's not quadratic formulas, but neither is it light and breezy.
Well, it's not really random crap. It can be frustratingly dense, but these early philosophical theories/arguments/debates are somewhat foundational to how people have seen the world ever since and are visible in art, politics, and so forth.
But, ya know, tangent, and junk.
Do you do any work in genetics now?
I took a psych class in undergrad in which the professor was willing to accept final papers in outline/bulleted points format, rather than in a standard research/essay format. Pissed me off.
As a TA, I spend a lot of time reading/grading papers and essays. By and large, freshman level college students can't write worth .
I majored in Accounting, and got my BA. Isn't that hard!
Yeah, Earth Materials was probably my least favorite geology course. Hardest geology course for me was probably seismic exploration (I liked it and devoted myself to it and STILL got a C. Graduate level course if you ask me, especially when you consider more than half the class are graduate students.) or structural geology. Structural deformation, as you should expect, is determined by more than just time, pressure and temperature.
Hardest undergraduate course I took was actually the weed out class physics majors take, wave motion and optics. After that I would say calc 5, basically vector calculus on steroids here at UT. More than half my class was aerospace engineers.
Geophysics is a hard ing degree man. Make sure you get internships that allow you to gain experience with seismic interpretation. Most companies require a masters in geophysics or 8 years experience in order to get a position concerning seismic interpretation. I was a research assistant for a summer where I interpreted new profiles and even made a 3d map with them.... still not enough experience. I'm looking for companies right now that will take me as a general geologist and gradually ease me into the geophysical work or will pay for my masters. Stick with it though, it's well worth it and you will make serious money later on. Senior geophysicists make more than $150k salaries for most companies.
I'm an economics major, but I despise Math. Graphs and simple equations don't bother me, but I'd much prefer writing any day of the week.
Didn't love genetics so focused my shift to pharmacology for graduate school. My career is in pharma/biologics so genetics plays some role, but mostly pharmacology and immunology.
Research scientist for a biotech with my BS, finishing up a Masters now in Biosecurity/Biodefense for a business/government scientific liaison position in the company. Got lucky with the first position right out of school and got more money than what most fresh grads got so I have no place to complain. Don't land a good position fresh out of school and you're making $12 an hour doing lab work a monkey could do.
I'm a senior studying Finance + Economics (B.S.) ...after this semester I'll be about 13 credits away from finishing both.
Hardest part in engineering is getting down the systems used for linear approximation. You do not even really need to understand how the technique was derived but rather just know the technique to pass.
Most engineering students know how to work with fourier transforms and the natural number but if you were to ask them how it they were derived, they would just look at you.
Math as such is much more difficult to master as the focus is on the derivation. The why versus the how.
From my experience quantum field and even classic field theory is much harder than both.
In order I would say
1) Physics
2) mathematics esp stochastics
3) Engineering
I think Biochemistry is quite possibly the best field to study if one is considering medicine or any form of it.
If I could go back, I would major in Biochemistry instead of Chemistry. It probably would have helped me more. More like, it would have helped me.
Cool.
I have a friend who's a staff scientist at a biopharma research facility. He likes it. Since it's private sector, they have some cool to work with.
thanks for the info
tbh i don't think the EM material is that hard, but the workload and the way they grade isn't like anything i've ever seen before. the class average on our 1st test was a 42 (the grading scale is 60-70=C, 70-80=B, 80-100=A). I ended up getting a 55 while answering every question correctly.
And, yeah, I'm taking that physics class now and it sucks. He does give out curves though so I think I'll be able to make it through
And see. I'm the exact opposite. I'm a Liberal Arts major, and my favorite thing about it is the wiggle room it affords me. Science and math classes that have a definitive answer terrify the outta me.
so...if it's not too personal, how much do all you chemistry, biochemistry, biology related majors exactly make? props to you for undertaking something that requires real intellect, but for me the incentive just wasn't there for 50k a year, in a lot of cases that's exactly what i've heard people make with some of those degrees. i'm just wondering how accurate that is, i know someone mentioned if you're not lucky you'll be stuck doing lab research that a monkey could do for 12 bucks an hour.
Google the occupational handbook. Its a publication put forth by the dept of labor or some . It has a lot of awesome salary info as well as job projections.
Here you go:
http://www.bls.gov/oco/
A good friend of mine did her Masters in genetics and started a MD/PhD program last year. She says her 2nd year classes in medicine are boring as compared to the research she was doing. But I'm guessing things will change as she progresses in the higher years, where her background will probably be more applicable.
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