Another newbie...

[wraxa]

Hi! I am new to the board. My name is Ashley and I am an 18 year old Biology major at Kennesaw State in Georgia. I have had a little bit of experience with fishkeeping in the past, but had to give it up for a little while. However, I am now back in the game with a new (small  ) tank and am very excited. I LOVE catfish and have three little albino cories. Pleased to meet everyone!  

[colesea]

Wow, another bio major...

My advice to all bio majors....run. Run as fast as you can. Turn around and don't look back. Switch into a more practical major like Eled, or business, or computers, or psychology for catfish's sake. Whatever you do, just, run as far from your science building as you can. And don't look back.

See, first it starts with Intro Bio, heck skip that, you've three AP credits anyway. That's easy enough, and Chem I is the same you had in high school. Heck, Chem II is a breeze, and Intro to Ecology you passed while sleeping late each day. But then comes Organics...and Environmental Chem turns out not to be exactly what you think. Ecology turns into a six hour field lab in the middle of a misqueto infested swamp, but once they've gotten their teeth in you. Once they're sure you're hooked on Animal Behavior and Aquatic Biology, they force things like Anatomy, Physiology, and Developmental into your electives. And, AND! You get locked in a dark closet with that one elective nobody can avoid, that one "elective" that you have no choice but to take, the one they forget to tell you about during enrollment, the...the *gasp* the three credits of a BOTANY LAB!

*shudders from the flashbacks* Whew, but once you're done with that. Once you have that BS piece of paper in your hands, and you've remained to be one of the 50 graduating seniors -still- a bio major after four years (your smarter friends have gone onto El-ed or english majors by then and are graduating summa cum laud while you're glad to be graduating at all after that hellish semester of Physiology and Organics) from an initial class of 200, you realize...it was all worth it...

...when you're making $8/hr at your local fish store!

~~Colesea (been there, done that)
Although I must say, the best class I had was Oceanography, taught by a proff who got sea-sick, and therefore did everything by telemetry. That rocked! We got to play with a multi-million dollar STD while he stayed on shore with the lap-top and yelled as us over the radio to keep fixing the up link.

[wraxa]

Well, I want to go to medical school, so I'm left with no other alternative. Thankfully, I don't have to take enviormental chem or botany. *

Oh... and Chem II is NOT a breeze. *> Not for me, anyway...  

[Somonas]

welcome to Myfishtank.net, wraxa.

[ChazECJr]

Welcome wraxa.

If you like bio and chem consider majoring in chemical engineering, and take whatever other courses you can to land you in the pharmaceutical industry when you graduate.  The Merck's of the world pay a lot better than $8/hr.

(Yes, I am a chemical engineer.  No, sadly, I am not a high paid drug company engineer however.   :'(  But perhaps you can avoid that mistake I made...)

[rummynose]

Another CHMEng, yes!!  I wouldn't reccommend it though, 4-5 yrs of, no I can't go to the bar, too much Pchem, reactors, kinetics,  blah blah blah.  Then when your hopping to get the lush pharmaceutical or R&D job, the economy dives and you take the nearest process/plant job you can find.  Can't complain though, pay is good.

Biochemistry was my favorite Biology class.  Never took Oceanography though, sounds like a good one.    

Hey Wraxa
Your breaking my heart, medical school, come off it...(Sorry im a nursing student).  No seriously, good for you. Just dont become a Dr. without a heart! My outlook is that you treat all your patients as if they where your own family. They are not room #'s or the GI bleed in 256, they are people with feelings..Sorry about that tangent, Colessa, your rubbing off on me..hahaha. Good luck with med school Wraxa!
Johnmac

[colesea]

P-chem P-chem P-chem. OH I just love P-chem! All my chem major friends used to take a year and a half of everything they could just so they could dedicate a whole semester to nothing but P-chem. And they're soo funny about it too. Nothing is more amusing to watch than a bunch of P-chem majors sitting in the study lounge at 3am talking about how the end of the world is comming because the prof is the anti-christ and the entropy is increasing all around them. All it boils down to is discovering the compsition of Mountain Dew.<G>

I'm so glad I didn't have to take P-chem. Organics was enough for me. Doesn't look like I'll avoid Biochem though. I tried, that's why I took Organics, but Organics is not a Vet Tech requirement, and Biochem is. Drats.

But Medicine is a noble pursute all in all. One of my best friends is now in ther second year of med school. Over Thanksgiving dinner she and I had the most interesting conversation regarding her cardava dissection that sememster. We compared anatomy between humans and turkeys enough to disgust the rest of the family<G>.
~~Colesea

[dattack]

Comeon now, there are more doctors with hearts than without one.  

[jbfootin]

I think it is more of an ego problem than heart.  God complex I think they call it.