Shemeska
Adventurer
For my undergraduate schooling I double majored in Chemistry and Biology, and for the longest time I wasn't sure if I wanted to go into research or medicine. I eventually did some undergrad research and fell in love with it, and so I went that route, but I took the MCAT for the heck of it. Did well on it, but I just don't have the urge to go to med school at this point. More power to you if that's your calling, but it wasn't mine.
After getting my undergrad degrees, I'm now in the last couple months here before I snag my MS in Molec. Biology. I've done everything but given my thesis defense for the most part, and now the question is do I hit the job market right now while it seems to be doing rather well, or do I go for a PhD. I don't know yet on that.
But from my experience, go for Biology. In any bio program I've ever seen you can choose to specialize in what branch of biology you go into, even as an undergraduate. And in graduate school it gets even more specialized. Half of my department are various types of ecologists, and the other half are the molecular/cell/genetics/virology folks, which is where I am.
Of course, with my study as an undergraduate I worked for about 10 months in between then and grad school doing some contract work for the EPA in bioinformatics/cheminformatics. So in my experience if you've a broad enough base in your education, you can switch between associated areas, though the learning curve may be steeper for some than others.
After getting my undergrad degrees, I'm now in the last couple months here before I snag my MS in Molec. Biology. I've done everything but given my thesis defense for the most part, and now the question is do I hit the job market right now while it seems to be doing rather well, or do I go for a PhD. I don't know yet on that.
But from my experience, go for Biology. In any bio program I've ever seen you can choose to specialize in what branch of biology you go into, even as an undergraduate. And in graduate school it gets even more specialized. Half of my department are various types of ecologists, and the other half are the molecular/cell/genetics/virology folks, which is where I am.
Of course, with my study as an undergraduate I worked for about 10 months in between then and grad school doing some contract work for the EPA in bioinformatics/cheminformatics. So in my experience if you've a broad enough base in your education, you can switch between associated areas, though the learning curve may be steeper for some than others.
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