<p>Biophysics is something that I've been looking at for a while now since it combines biology, chemistry, and physics. However, I've been stressing out about how I want to go about pursuing it (major in biochem with minor in physics OR go to school with biophysics major and somehow still have a social life after all of the hard work OR major in physics and concentrate in biophysics...). I can put into words the simple reason why I am interested in this now.</p>
<p>Biochemistry is a subject matter that interests me, plain and simple. However, the process of physics also greatly interests me, though not as much the subject manner. For example, I could really care less the coefficient of friction for moving a box on an icy path along with its momentum, but the challenging mathematical processes of figuring this out (yes, obviously I like more complicated ones than that) are what interest me. It gives me great satisfaction to know that I was able to complete a difficult physics problem on a test as opposed to simply having to know - for one extreme - that cytosine pairs with guanine (I think) and other mental regurgitation for a test, yet the biochemistry subject matter interests me more (I think that protein folding and organic chemistry sound more interesting than ohms, gravity, and even quantum tunneling). Therefore I think it would be great to have the subject matter of biochemistry mixed with the challenging process of physics to make biophysics.</p>
<p>This leaves my next question. I have always loved science, but physics was the first science class that really made me think (well, chemistry to a certain degree). Will even merely majoring in biochemistry give me the same satisfaction of critical thinking that I get from physics? I'm guessing that an answer of yes will have to do with organic chemistry, since from what I heard that is a good amount of critical thinking (I heard that you get something which in my experience is analogous to a geometric proof in which you are given chemicals and an end product and most fill in all the middle steps). Am I right in this respect? Will biochemistry give me the same amount of (or come close to) the critical thinking that I get from physics processes or is it mostly mental regurgitation?</p>