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Right now i'm halfway though my sophomore year and i feel as though i am kinda alone majoring in Chemistry. I understand that most people thinks its boring and avoid it but seriously i think its pretty awesome stuff once you get past the first couple of gen ed courses. I mean you essentially get to learn why the universe is made the way it is, and how to change it.
So anybody else out there or am i just crazy? |
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My brother is a chemist, and I have a few chemist friends. I think yall guys are just too busy to play, in general. lol.
But, hat's... er, goggles... off to you. |
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Chemist here too =)
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But what about the soft symphony of chiming borosilicate glass, rising and falling above and below and all around the fumehood bassline in the background like leaves in Fall? And those moments where the world around you just froze upon the realisation that the sands of time, while grainy, were vastly titanic compared to your sinkable soluble product? :D Although on a different note, the person next to me was using the vacuum hose line to give himself hickeys, lol. |
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Former chemist here. I feel exactly the same way about my previous career as a paramedic. |
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Edited by Nachtstier on 9/7/11 1:28 PM (PDT)
Former chemist here. Okay, props to you and the other chemists here. I hate chem. To much memorizing. Only thing I smell is ozone and hot computers at my work. lol Oh, and coffee/tea. Lots and lots of coffee! |
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pharmaceutical chemist here and let me tell you, if anything you'll stay busy and continue to learn. if you like both of those things in a job, then you will be pretty satisfied. only set-backs really are stress-level from clients, the occasional ridiculous pace of some projects, and instrumentation malfunction. goodluck dude
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I am not a Chemist, but I am a Biologist, and as such I have to take a decent amount of Chemistry courses during my Degree and use a lot of chemistry in my day to day stuff. As far as liking chemistry, I enjoy Organic Chemistry more than I do Inorganic. Organic Chemistry makes sense in terms of Biology, while Inorganic Chemistry seems like worthless math to me most of the time.
Fortunately I focus on Ecology more than the small stuff. I study Invasive Species, specifically the Bullseye and Northern Snakehead fish that are moving up from Florida. Why did I choose Ecology? Partially b/c its more interesting to me to see the big scale, partially b/c I am not a huge fan of the massive amounts of Chem involved in the small scale. Most Bio Students universally rebel against all forms of Chemistry, I am no exception. |
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Same here. However, I will admit that there's a huge variety of what you could end up doing with a chemistry degree, even within pharmaceuticals. I do Drug Metabolism work (figuring out what the body is doing to the drug). Sure, my ultimate over-all job is that I'm helping develop drugs for some pretty nasty diseases out. Day-to-day? I work with a lot of gross stuff. Mostly poop. A lot of poop. Radioactive poop. It's going on almost 10 years for me and honestly, I still like what I do for the most part. And as for still liking your classes - physical chemistry. Just you wait.... |
Quantum got you down? Up? |
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Bleh.....so glad when I was finally done with pchem and was able to have a social life again. |
Chemists have social lives? |
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No, that's pharmacists. In the organic chemistry lecture theatres here, the chemists spread out and keep to themselves. The pharmacists form clusters in the centre and talk to each other. |
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Sure! I play WoW with my husband and friends, go to table-top roleplaying games, attend gaming/video game conventions, go to midnight releases of games, and stay up late drinking at scientific meetings. |
Actually, I know a lot of chemists that love table top gaming. (Same with physicists, but to a larger extent chemists). I think the social drinking at scientific meetings (or even with everyday colleagues) is a way of life for most scientists. |
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Edited by Dimetre on 10/6/11 12:43 AM (PDT)
As a freshman in college and still mostly exploring possible majors, a Chem major has been at the top of my list of ideas for quite awhile. I guess it will come down to: work ethic, ability to comprehend principles (which goes along with work ethic honestly), Math skills, and probably Lab proficiency since that's big where I am. Certainly an interesting field and one I definitely have some sort of passion for... If anything, I wish they would give us more solo experiments in the Lab so I can explore this study on my own. I want to do most of these experiments by myself. Many, if not all, of my true interests and passions are best enjoyed by me in solitude where I can be alone with my thoughts and concentrate on the job at hand.
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