Major in STEM brehs...

[DamienWayne]

Stem grad, went to an hbcu. Major in bio, minor in chem

It was not that bad, you have to be real focused

Wat u do now breh

 

[Serious]

Ironically the major classes were easy for me, it was alot of the unrelated courses they make you take your freshmen and sophmore yrs that annoyed me. They werent hard I just didnt see the value in some of them.

this.....

 

[Serious]

Fast forward 10 years and we lost in that money

If you didn't major in STEM, you probably wasted your time going to college lesbereal

yeah but you gotta work around cacs on that
That's why I went bio instead of engineering.

 

[staticshock]

That sucks. Why not find another school that offers Engineering then?


And as for Biology, the best thing to do is to also minor in something related in addition to the major itself(preferably a minor that overlaps some classes with the biology requirements so that will be actually less classes needed to take.

Cause I work full time during the day. The engineering schools here have some evening classes but the majority of them are in the morning.

I'm 29 breh I can't quit a good full time job for school an stay on campus

 

[Gold]

Ironically the major classes were easy for me, it was alot of the unrelated courses they make you take your freshmen and sophmore yrs that annoyed me. They werent hard I just didnt see the value in some of them.

I feel you on this... halfway.

I however do beleive that Discrete Math and Assembly are damn near necesesary to understand how a computer works on the lowest level.

I can pull up beside maybe 90% of our Developers and ask them "Explain to me what happens on a fundamental level when a computer adds 1+1 and gets 2"
I promise you they wouldn't be able to answer because they've never learned the foundations of their craft.

 

[Serious]

So I'm an associate teacher, and I'm considering completing an education degree.

Some of the ladies I work with keep saying don't do it and I need to look into something else.

If I do, it'll be a stem major. If I don't do education, I'll do chemistry, environmental science, biotechnology, or biochem.

What do you STEM brehs recommend?

chem, stay general don't limit yourself.

 

[Serious]

question to all the stem brehs, how many other brehs did u see in your classes

by my last year it was all cac , middle easteners, a few brehetttes and me and one or two other brehs. we was always looking at each other after the exams

Man it was like that since. Day 1, I legit had semesters where I was the only black breh in a class with like 200 people.
best believe there was a lot of

 

[Gold]

yeah but you gotta work around cacs on that
That's why I went bio instead of engineering.

Yeah, it was really bad in Tulsa.

Dallas is fine though. Now that I have seniority no one really talks to me

 

[patscorpio]

Fast forward 10 years and we lost in that money

If you didn't major in STEM, you probably wasted your time going to college lesbereal

i remember in college in the campus paper..someone posted an article bashing majors like sociology, psychology, and communications as being non serious...mad students were uppppppppp-set..including my roommate who was a communications major.

*edit isnt psychology considered STEM now?

 

[patscorpio]

I feel you on this... halfway.

I however do beleive that Discrete Math and Assembly are damn near necesesary to understand how a computer works on the lowest level.

I can pull up beside maybe 90% of our Developers and ask them "Explain to me what happens on a fundamental level when a computer adds 1+1 and gets 2"
I promise you they wouldn't be able to answer because they've never learned the foundations of their craft.

assembly i hated that language...it was a bytch to program in

 

[AB Ziggy]

question to all the stem brehs, how many other brehs did u see in your classes

by my last year it was all cac , middle easteners, a few brehetttes and me and one or two other brehs. we was always looking at each other after the exams

For me, I interacted with maybe around 20-30 blacks out of around 150 people in my biochem major. Most of em were primarily 1st/2nd generation Africans and Caribbeans tho.

Quite a few women in biochem too, but Biology has a TON of women(and definitely the baddest ones )

 

[BooksnCookies]

nikka said bio.

What do you think people in Bio do? I'm always amazed how easy people think Bio is like it doesn't include genetics, biochem, physics, hard stats.

Anyway, the only class that ever had me shook was molecular bio. Orgo, p-chem, genetics, cell bio, loved it but that molecular bio damned near threatened by gpa.

I will say that looking back, I wish I'd stuck with engineering solely for comp sci classes ( and that huge paycheck for my gap years). I'm finding I REALLY like doing science with that quantitative edge. I'm currently learning R and Python and the power behind those programs for ANY type of data is amazing. Has me thinking I should go back to school for bioinformatics rather than immunology or at least do a dual program for that type of thing. One girl I work with is a Neuroscience PhD candidate and she's already looking at industry offers for 100k+ doing brain genomics stuff.

 

[Quasi]

organic chemistry is, was and will always be the absolute WOAT.. fukk that course.

 

[Serious]

i remember in college in the campus paper..someone posted an article bashing majors like sociology, psychology, and communications as being non serious...mad students were uppppppppp-set..including my roommate who was a communications major.

*edit isnt psychology considered STEM now?

neuroscience and some bio-psychology majors that incorporate physics,general biology, chemistry and organic chem can be considered STEM.

But STEM really is TEM

 

[Quasi]

What do you think people in Bio do? I'm always amazed how easy people think Bio is like it doesn't include genetics, biochem, physics, hard stats.

Anyway, the only class that ever had me shook was molecular bio. Orgo, p-chem, genetics, cell bio, loved it but that molecular bio damned near threatened by gpa.

I will say that looking back, I wish I'd stuck with engineering solely for comp sci classes ( and that huge paycheck for my gap years). I'm finding I REALLY like doing science with that quantitative edge. I'm currently learning R and Python and the power behind those programs for ANY type of data is amazing. Has me thinking I should go back to school for bioinformatics rather than immunology or at least do a dual program for that type of thing. One girl I work with is a Neuroscience PhD candidate and she's already looking at industry offers for 100k+ doing brain genomics stuff.

damn.. you smart as hell, Ma. That's that aggressive kind of smartness that I've always wanted I struggled with all that shyt but it sounds like you breezed right through it..