<p>What would be a useful minor to go along with biochem. I thought math or genetics might be useful, but I'm not completely sure. I'd like to go into research if that helps.</p>
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<p>Stats, maybe? It depends on what aspect of biochem you want to study, so if immunology or microbiology are offered, those could be options, too.</p>
<p>I’d start by getting a useful major. Biochem + no professional school = unemployed or impoverished.</p>
<p>What would be a “useful” major that is science related.</p>
<p>Biochem is an excellent major for research. Stats works, so does genetics or microbio if your interested in molecular biology.</p>
<p>Don’t listen to sschoe2. Biochem is a great major, and you’ll go far with enough drive and ambition. You could always minor in pure chem or bio too, if you want to have more of a focus on one aspect or the other.</p>
<p>Thank you. That really helps. I have seen other posts in the forum saying that biochem is useless and it was beginning to make me question what I was doing.</p>
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I wish this weren’t the case, but sschoe2 is pretty much right.
Biochem is a useless major unless you go to professional school (Med, Pharma, not PhD). Your only job prospects are academia(oversaturated and awful in general) and low paying dead-end jobs.
Drive and ambition do not make jobs.</p>
<p>@NeoDymium: I know how bad the prospects are for biochem, and I agree; I may have gone a bit far in my prior post. But, neither we nor Runmiles know exactly what he/she will end up doing with the degree. They might decide to go on to do a professional degree after further consideration of their options, they might go into a different field altogether after their degree, or they might succeed in academia (or fail; who’s to say). I just didn’t feel that this thread was the place to make a statement about the dismal state of many fields nowadays, not just biochem.</p>
<p>I definitely wouldn’t recommend the field however; odds are against a fruitful career.
What kind of research specifically are you interested in? There’s a few good paths to a good research career, but lab science is seldom the way to go.</p>
<p>Part of the reason I want to major in biochemistry is because I don’t know exactly what I want to do. I only have a rough idea. I figured that in the course of getting a B.S. in biochem I would be exposed to new things and I’d have a better idea of what I want to get my masters in. I thought that I could use the bachelors in biochem to maybe get a masters in something like pharm or microbiology. Am I right?</p>
<p>I would not recommend that you go for pharma/med unless you know that you’re good enough to get in. You’d be wasting four years and a lot of money.
Speaking of which, are you fully funded or will you have to take loans for your undergrad?
What is that rough idea of what you want to do?</p>
<p>Money isn’t really an issue. And the reason I was thinking pharm is because my dad does a great deal of business with pharmaceutical companies such as cvs and such, so I have some connections. And the being good enough thing I understand and I think I am. I’ve taken high level sciences and ha no problem with them. Also when I’m motivated and know what I want to do and how to get there, even if I struggle I always figure it out and excell. I know I want to do something research related that has to do with medicine or drugs.</p>
<p>Biochem alone is going to be pretty much useless, though it’s not bad as a stepping stone. You could go into pharma, med, BioMedE, etc. But you really have to figure out which way you actually want to go soon. Research the professions and their job prospects etc in depth ASAP.</p>
<p>Do I have to now? I was planning on just going through all the biochem courses and just seeing what I like the most and basing what I want to get my masters in off of that.</p>
<p>You don’t HAVE to, but at the very least try to pick by the end of the semester, at most at the end of the year. Do you want to commit to clinical internships and MCAT/PCATs, or do you want to spend time doing research that would serve you in grad school? You only have so much time to choose.
The faster the better. My advice is to get a research job NOW, arrange your schedule to both take care of as many general (required by major and gen-ed) classes as possible while giving yourself a schedule that feeds your GPA.
By next summer, you should be doing some internships in whatever field you choose, whether it’s clinical work, pharma work, or biomed work. You really can’t wait forever to choose.</p>
<p>Hahaha I don’t know if you are confused or I am, but I’m a rising senior and I’m just trying to map my life out lol</p>
<p>In high school?
Consider yourself lucky, you have an extra year to think it through before truly committing to anything. Use it to find out more about what you could possibly do.</p>
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