studying science | advice | insight into university
Choosing my major:
>I liked sciences better than the inane dribble I got from the English department. I acquired a deep appreciation for God's complete sovereignty and ingenuity in the biological sciences. To cogitate on the wonder of creation, such awe, takes my breath away.
>A typical course load involves 18 hours of class, 6 to 9 hours of lab, plus additional homework time.
>Science students at my university enjoy making fun of the anal retentiveness of Life Science students.
>In the first two years of university science classes, it was hard to appreciate the amazing world because of large classes.
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Advice for science students:
>Make connections with profs early.
>Get out now if you can't see yourself doing this for 20 to 30 years.
>Go out, meet people, take different courses, keep an open mind.
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Life in university:
>I found the hardest adjustment to university was to not become a hedonist, throwing my dignity and discipline to the wind, misusing freedoms. Adjusting to the studying wasn't the easiest either.
>You feel like cattle the first couple of years. Hundreds in a class. I think sometimes we want to be cattle. It's easier because you kind of fit.
>Any desire I had to rise above the crop came from realizing that I was imbibed with certain talents and it would be an awful waste to see them flushed down the toilet, to see them squandered in something less than lasting.
>In university I've learned how afraid people are of being themselves, how they are self-conscious, showing weakness, and showing compassion.
>A lot of ideas introduced to me by my high school teachers were leveled by my university professors. I realized I didn't know anything... I knew what other people knew. I had to know for myself. I had to face my questions.
I was so dependent on shaping my ideas, identity and thoughts on what other people thought, I'd never even found my own. I had some profs who challenged me to get my head out of the sand. I was dared to open my mind.
>Best thing about university: it's the cornucopia (abundance) of learning experiences
>Worst thing about university: how people's optimism and innocence are swallowed up.
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