Alas, no. Could have been though. Chemistry was my game. But I fell in love with words and became a writer. Do fantasies of myself in a white lab coat, slaving over a hot centrifuge, count? No? Well, at least I have my fantasy life!
No, no, don’t cry for me… I can live with the fact that I will never ever again smell anything nearly as funky as the concoctions we made in lab… but at least I walked away with the knowledge of how to make LSD… this has made my writing what it is today.
Better living through modern chemistry. Believe it, kids!
I have a BS in Computer and Information Science. Specialized in software engineering. It means that I can find what was wrong with that javascript program that crashed my browser.
Dissertation - Genetic and morphological variation in the black-billed Magpie (Pica pica hudsonia): Evolution of social signals. Debut: 1990. Chock full of good stuff like starch-gel electrophoresis, heterochrony, wing parches, and operant behavior. The eloquence will amaze you, the logic impeccable, and the conclusions will have you standing up and cheering for more - a real page-turner, this! Believe me, I’m a scientist!!
Okay, okay, it’s a good substitute for ketamine or whatever else they use to knock people out. But I am a scientist. I have the scars.
I’m not anything yet, but I’m a student trying to decide on my major. I desperately want to be an astrophysicist, but there doesn’t seem to be much call for one out here.
No matter which way I go, I’ll be in some kind of science or engineering program.
Geologist-in-training here. I’m also the daughter of a rocket scientist (really–my dad worked for NASA for some years and after he retired, he had business cards printed up saying “Rocket Scientist.” He was a funny guy.).
Sorry, just an engineer - BS in ME. (I can bullshit about myself. What, that’s not what that means?)
Geobabe, not that rocket scientist joke? I work at NASA, too. I’ve seen t-shirts like that around - somebody made up a set a couple years ago. I’ve used the joke myself. An ex-girlfriend’s dad used to call me his personal rocket scientist. Hey, I studied a handful of aero classes in college, including learning the equation for calculating payload/fuel ratios for multistage rockets.
Dropped out of a Masters in genetic engineering partway through. (Held a test-tube of freshly engineered bugs in my hand and thought “Should we really be doing this?”, a thought prompted in part by my lab partner, who was without doubt the least ept person I have ever encountered in a micro lab, and believe me, the side effects of ineptness in microbiology lab are Darwinian evolution in action.).
Does a grad student count? Got my astronomy MS this year, hopefully a Ph.D in 3 more years. More of an engineer at heart though - I’m mostly working on developing instruments for astronomical satellites.
BS Chemistry
BS Education
(taught Chemistry and Physics [High School and College level] for 7 years)
MS in Educational Measurement, Evaluation and Statistics
now i’m a statistical analyst :shudder:
M.S. in Economics (mostly business economics).
Also, I am a well-rounded human being, with a degree from the University of Life, a diploma from the School of Hard Knocks, and three gold stars from the Kindergarten of Getting the Shit Kicked Out Of Me.
