<p>I'm kind of curious. There so many biology major or a bio-related major people I talk to and I'm curious, if you didn't make to medical, dental, pharmacist school, what would be your back up? Also, what about biology intrigue so many people to become a biology major?</p>
<p>Because biology is the foundation of life; the essence of what we are and where we came from and also how every living thing in the world interacts with one another.</p>
<p>If I wasn’t so bad at biology, and didn’t want to murder myself with the course load and pre-med students, I may have considered majoring in it in a non-medical sense.</p>
<p>The majority of biology majors certainly don’t end up as physicians/dentists. A lot of pre-med students prefer an easy courseload with an easy major. My freshmen classes are filled with lots of non-science majors, who are generally obnoxious because they complain a lot and are always like “Med schools don’t care if blahblah”. Go back to your English classes, dammit 
I’ve heard people say they hate English but are majoring in it for a high GPA to impress Law/Med/Grad…I imagine the other English majors don’t like this either… </p>
<p>Science generally attracts people who are curious and tend to wonder how things work. I’m interested in the natural world and life; not studying what a dead white guy made up and how he killed other dead white guys (although that’s interesting too). Biology has so many practical applications - Agriculture, Medicine, Technology, Pharmaceuticals, Environmental, etc. I have classmates who want to be marine biologists, veterinarians, bioengineers, surgeons, forensics scientists, a ton of crap. </p>
<p>[Fields</a> of Biology - It’s the largest science field](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_biology_disciplines]Fields”>Biology - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>I’m a Biochemistry major (technically a chem field) - and this field focuses specifically on chemical processes in living things. After college I’m interested in doing medical research. For this, I’ll go to either Graduate school for a Masters or PhD, or to Med school - either way I’m interested in biomed.</p>
<p>Well what about all those english majors. If they don’t become writers, what’s their fallback plan? Or journalists, because you know there will be plenty that never make it to news anchor. Or god forbid a business major figures out they hate the business world… boy are they done for.</p>
<p>I think looking at college and education as a linear, straight shot route, is both dangerous and very boring. I’m a senior biology major and never once did I plan on going on to med school. I’ve done it because the subject is intriguing and the education is so broad. I’ll come out of undergrad with a particularly “worthless” degree that hasn’t prepared me for any single track career, but a very broader sense of what it is I really want to do. And then again, maybe I’ll go back for a masters in something fairly unrelated… but atleast I didn’t pick english as my major and have pulled all my hair out by now. :)</p>
<p>“I’m a Biochemistry major (technically a chem field)”
At least where I am going, its a field of biology. </p>
<p>I am currently declaring Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology, and I plan on getting a PhD then possibly doing stem cell research, cloning, or gene modification.</p>
<p>I plan on majoring in Human biology. Yes its because I’m doing pre-med but also I just like biology and biology comes really easily to me.</p>