Hey guys!
My name is Alyssa (Aly) and I am a sophomore at Florida State University right now. I am a biochemistry
major, with a premed track. The main purpose of this blog is basically for me
to get my rants out about my daily struggles/ hardships of being a biochem
major that wants to do premed... just beware for some semi-strong language,
crying, me being pissed off, and possibly some friends popping up
occasionally.
So to start off the blog
I will just tell you guys about my college experience so far. So I don't
normally go out at all to clubs and what not like your typical college student.
I mainly spend my time at the library with my good friend Chadwick and some
other friends (their names will pop up occasionally)! So freshman year I wasn't
even a science major. I was an actuarial science major, which is a lot of statistics.
I mean I really enjoyed the sciences I took in high school but I was good at
math in high school and it came easy to me, so why not, right? For advice, do
not do major in something unless you have a passion for it. I think
that this heavily influenced my decision to drop being an actuary major and
changed to premed. So my first summer here I was in microeconomics and ENC1101.
While in micro, I knew I wasn't really enjoying the whole "marginal cost
and benefits" ordeal. So fall finally came around and I took
macroeconomics (still an actuary major at this point), ENC1102, precalculus,
trigonometry (ended up dropping it), and biology 1. I needed some science class
so I could fill a requirement, and I thought a baby bio would be too easy, and
I really liked biology and cells from high school, so cool, I'll do that. So I
ended up loving it and decided to switch my major half way through the Fall
2014 semester to biochemistry. I also really enjoy doing things like
volunteering at the hospital, and I practically grew up in the hospital (both
of my parents work there) so doing something with medicine seemed like such a
natural thing to do! So premed it is!
Last spring I started
getting into my premed prereqs and I took bio 2, chem 1, chem 1 lab, bio 1 lab,
religion in the US, psychology. General psychology sucked to be quite honest.
Some people absolutely loved it and said it was an easy A, but let me tell you-
just because someone says its an easy A, this does not mean that it will also
be an easy A for you. For me, I didn't particularly like psychology. My teacher
really went over the people who influenced psychology but not really any
psychological disorders. I think it just wasn't what I was expecting as a
psychology class. I just expected more disorders than history of professors.
Don't go by me though, your gen psych class could be completely different than
mine!
So as I said before, I
dropped trigonometry in the fall. I would study and study and study, but it
just didn't help me or my grade at all. And when I stay study, I mean study
like 3 hours a day for this class, plus tutoring sessions. Nothing helped. So I
dropped. I took it over the summer recently after my summer camp job, and
absolutely loved it. It was such a wonderful course honestly! I'm not sure what
changed, or why I suddenly understood everything, but I did, so I'm not
questioning it, haha.
That leaves this
semester! So I am taking genetics, chem 2, chem 2 lab, bio 2 lab, calculus 1,
and ancient mythology in the east and west, All these classes are pretty okay.
Calculus is alright because I learned it previously but my teacher honestly
sucks. My friend Colin (also a fellow biochem-premed major) and I complain
about him every day. But there is nothing I can do about it except stick it
out, and hope for the best. Genetics is also alright. In itself its an amazing
class. Its really interesting to see the small aspects of a cell and to know
that it all happens on its own with no directing figure and stuff. Honestly its
so mind blowing. I'm pretty sure I say this at least like twice a day and my
friends get so annoyed with it. All my other classes are awesome and I have
really great teachers this semester (minus my stinking calc teacher, sorry if
you're reading this sir- but its the truth).
I hope you other premeds
know that you're not alone in your struggles and I am going through all of them
with you.
God Bless,
Aly
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