Hey, I’m going to be a college freshman in January at a state university. I was pretty confident with my grades and stuff, applied to the school I wanted to go to, and didnt’ get in, therefore, not applying to any safety schools. That is why I am starting in the middle of the year, the spring term. So I’m going to move down there in January.
My parents keep telling me I’m crazy cause I’m going to double major in Biology and Chemistry… any of you dopers gonna try and talk me out of that too?
Look and see if there’s a separate program in biochem. You don’t have to be insane to do that particular double major, but it sure helps. Even a major/minor combination would be more feasible.
I started out as a chemistry/ physics major, but in my freshman year I got to, um, better know my aptitudes (with the help of a calculus course) and am now working on my doctorate in northern renaissance art history. Half the people I know in art history or anthropology started in physics, it seems. So. . . HA! Good luck!
capybara, I started out as a bio/premed student. Like you, calculus was my downfall (that, and babychem). I ended up as a history major, then spent seven years as a corporate pig* and just yesterday finished orientation for a master’s in library and information science.
But I know people who did the double biology/chemistry major. BadAzzBec, if you can handle it, go for it and more power to you. But if you find yourself struggling, ask for the help you need and don’t be afraid to change to something else if you find that it’s not what you really want to do.
*that’d be a corporate internal auditor
I entered college as pre-med, learned that I’d rather work with germs than the people who catch them, and will graduate next May with a Microbiology/ German degree.
If you end up not liking one of your majors, switch it to a language or history or anything else that’s fun for you, and your future employers will see you as a more well-rounded person.
