Anonymous asked: QUEENS SUX LOL UWO FTW
Look broski, at any other time I probably would’ve waved the tricolour flag in your face and made your eardrums rupture with a very passionate rendition of the Oil Thigh but DAMMIT I AM SIX WEEKS AWAY FROM GRADUATION, RIGHT NOW I AM TEAM ‘FUCK ACADEMIA I’M GOING HOME’
Anonymous asked: Are you Asian?
yukulele asked: Have you taken organic chemistry? I'm trying to figure out if I want to do a B.S. or B.A. in bio and a B.S. requires orgo and I'm so fucking scared of it... was just wondering because I'd like to know if its as bad as i think it is and whether its worth it for a B.S. Disclaimer: I'm really bad at chemistry :(
I took two semesters of orgo and yeah, it does tend to be a GPA killer. But it’s not impossible to do well! The thing with orgo is that 95% of the stuff you’ll be learning will be completely new and it isn’t like general chemistry where if you suck at one chapter, you can do amazingly well on the next one because the topics are completely unrelated. With orgo, you start off slow but you keep building and building on your knowledge and the stuff you learn at the beginning will be crucial later on. A lot of people fall behind and then, oh shit, they can’t catch up because they don’t even know what an alpha carbon is. It also requires a fair bit of analysis and as you probably know, bio people — especially first years — are notorious textbook vomitters (“Duhhh, I don’t understand but I’m just gonna memorize everything!”).
I can’t tell you which degree is better for you but I can tell you that a B.Sc in biology is way tougher than a B.A. in biology (and I’m sure grad schools and employers are aware of this). Not just because of orgo — there are more credit requirements, a fair amount of lab work, more required upper-year science courses… you may even have to do an undergrad thesis or take a couple of seminar classes. So if you plan on pursuing a career in science and you’re a capable person (i.e. if orgo is the only thing you’re afraid of and you’re fine with everything else), I’d recommend going the extra mile to get that B.Sc. Again, I don’t know your situation and I don’t know how well you can cope with a heavier workload, but look at the course requirements at your university. Ask around.
Good luck!
Anonymous asked: Could you please come up with a meme for psychology majors? I'm a psychology major and I feel totally left out. Well, that's not completely true since I get most of the science major mouse and the English major armadillo, but none the less I would like a psychology meme :)
Hey, does anybody wanna take this one? I’ll gladly promote it here! While I am a psych minor and I’d love to see a psych one, I’m not sure if I can handle running two related meme blogs.
I saw this post though, so… that’s a start.
Anonymous asked: Yay fellow bio major! Are you pre-med?
…………………I-I don’t know, mom, it’s too early to decide and becoming a doctor is both a career and a lifestyle choice
Real answer: whoo, bio! But no, I’m not pre-med. I know a lot of people who are going off to med school so props to them but I’m in fourth year and I have no intention of taking the MCAT. I may go on to grad school for evolutionary biology or, because I took the LSAT last year and did reasonably well, environmental law (shun the non-believer!!!).
Anonymous asked: http://fuckyeahanthropologymajorfox.tumblr.com/
Yay, sweet! Anthro majors, this might be more relevant to your interests!
Anonymous asked: What school do you go to?
justanother-ravenclaw asked: Would you count engineering within the umbrella of science?
I’d say kind of yes because there’s quite a bit of overlap with the other fields (e.g. physics, chemistry, molecular bio). Plus, a lot of engineering jokes can be understood by science majors. BUT AS WITH MOST THINGS, THERE ARE NO ABSOLUTES; if the joke is too specific to your tiny little field of expertise, it won’t be posted.
I also won’t be posting any computer science and advanced math jokes because I think those fields are diverse enough on their own to get their own memes and I don’t wanna steal anyone’s thunder. Plus, there are a feces-ton of programming and math jokes out there and I… don’t trust myself with those.
I’ll put up a submissions guideline soon! Thanks to those who already submitted — posts will be staggered so as not to flood your dashboards.
Overstressed, over-facted, forever chasing the high end of the bell curve. We are science majors, and these are our tales.
Note: I’m a biology major and a psych minor but I didn’t want to narrow down the scope of the meme to just those two things (we're already outnumbered by the humanities peeps!) so if you wanna rep your major, don’t hesitate to SUBMIT a post!
Anything that is: a) related to science (I know “science” is kind of a vague term so just to make it easy, we’re gonna go by what the general public considers to be “science” — i.e. fields that use the scientific method. So while history is a social science, history posts don't count, you trolls) b) humorous will most likely be accepted.
Submissions may be edited slightly but you will be credited.
